Talk:Celtic law

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[edit] Removed weird ending

In the modern Tribe we primarily utilize the Triads as our body of Law. We see the Triads as a contraction containing the very Spirit of the Brehon Law. We are also bringing forward applicable sections of the Law for use today.

This is inappropriately written in the first person, and links to articles which seem to have nothing to do with Ireland. -- Beland 01:40, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

The Iron age in ireland ended shortly after the Brehon Law was introduced.

And Brehon Law only refers to that in Ireland, not a code of law for all celtic people.

Someone should correct this.

Agreed. The current contents could be merged into Brehon law (if it is reliable) and this article turned into something more general. Rhion 21:12, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

The above comments seem to be based on misreading of the page. It is not simply about Brehon law, or about law in Ireland. It is primarily about how to make sense of law among various social groups who spoke some Celtic language. Its main focus is actually on continental groups, especially in pre-Roman Gaul. In much contempory literature in anthropology, linguistics and history there is a serious interest in attempting to use historical evidence from insular Celtic social orders to help make sense of continental Celtic social orders that existed prior to the Roman conquest of much of temperate northern Europe. The point is to use what we know from classical historical sources (here especially from what Julius Caesar observes in his Gallic Wars but including other Roman and Greek authors) in conjunction with our more direct knowledge from insular Celtic sources to make sense of the earlier continental social systems. It is not about how one might use the Brehon laws for contemporary purposes. The page on Brehon law stands as a seperate topic. It would be a disservice to many of us who have scholarly interests in continental Celtic social orders to try to merge this contribution with the one that deals directly with Brehon law. Brehon law was not exactly "introduced." It was codified. This codification, of course, made major differences in future practices. One of the interesting issues raised in a consideration of Celtic law prior to Romanization and Christianization is the effect of written law.

The comments you refer to were based on a previous version of the page and do not apply to the present article, which has been completely rewritten. Rhion 05:54, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

The article is a tad difficult to read - at times, it seems like every sentence contains a reference to the scarcity of evidence. I realise that it is important to stress that much of the information is speculative, but perhaps there is another way? Gabhala 19:39, 20 March 2007 (UTC)