https://www.boards.ie/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:56:53 +0000 en brehon — boards.ie - Now Ye're Talkin' https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057394231/brehon-law-cromwel-and-the-gay-referendum Mon, 09 Mar 2015 20:39:41 +0000 After Hours beerpong 2057394231@/discussions 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?]]>