Brehon Law, Cromwel and the gay referendum.
So here we are in 2015 about to vote on whether same sex couples can marry, a proposition that wouldn't have been problem in the sixteenth century in Ireland. Although I am no expert my understanding is that under Brehon Law men and women had equal rights and gay marriage was not an issue.
When the only English Pope gave permission to the Anglo-Norman Henry 2 conquest of Ireland, it was the start of the end for Brehon Law. Under Brehon Law, apparently a deeply humane and cultured society flourished, where the Irish stored knowledge while the rest of Europe was burning books.
The wars of Cromwell, the policy pursued by King Charles II, at the Restoration, and the results of the Revolution of 1688, prevented any revival of the Irish laws: and before the end of the seventeenth century the whole race of Brehons and Ollamhs of the Irish laws appears to become extinct.
So my question to you, is with the destruction of the Brehon Laws and their almost complete erasure from history, are we still suffering from the side effects? A beaten people with laws which make slaves of us to the English and American money masters?
We beat the English establishment out of the South but did we lose the civil war and our chance to reignite our forgotten culture? Have we ever had a true Republic?
