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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New book on adult relationships in family law added to the collection

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New edition of How to Think, Write and Cite now in the library

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Covin may be an outdated term now, but fraud and collusion are still at the forefront of many legal cases. It is one of the topics you could learn with our Advanced Diploma in Corporate, White–Collar and Regulatory Crime www.kingsinns.ie/study-law/ad...

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Advanced Diploma in Corporate, White–Collar and Regulatory Crime

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our example here is Covin fraud & collusion which means to collude with others deceive a third party. In ‘what avoided & not’ it says that it ‘Fraud and Imposition poisons every Transaction’ #Fraud #collusion #legalpractice

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our #Manuscript of the Month for September is Alphabetical List of Legal Definitions [Vol. 1] 1700s. It lists #legal concepts and gives examples from different cases. From tenants to bishops, and corporations to covenants. @kingsinns.bsky.social #archive #MotM #legalpractices #GLAM

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

To view this Irish language manuscript along with many others visit @dias-isos.bsky.social www.isos.dias.ie/collection/k...

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Our #Manuscript of the Month for August is MS17 a medical text from the 15th century which discusses wound, eye-ailments and cures. The #marginalia of field work and hawking brings to life the landscape of Ireland at that time. @kingsinns.bsky.social #archives #medieval #KingsInns #GLAM

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It’s one of many books in our collection that involve the Irish Parliament and highlights the close connection between law and politics. King’s Inns still recognise this connection, and offer an advanced diploma in Electoral Law and Politics. www.kingsinns.ie/courses/prof...

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Advanced Diploma in Electoral Law and Politics

This course will benefit both lawyers and non–lawyers engaged in the provision of legal services, broadly defined, including those in private practice and employed privately or in public bodies and re...

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

'It shall be lawfull to onfor any Person [...] to take and seize the sd ship with all her Tackle and Apparell, and to make sale there of to the best advantage, and half the money to be Raised by such sale, shall be to the Use of the Poor of the Parish' #archive #shipwreck #GLAM

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Our #Manuscript of the Month for July is a journal of Parliamentary Proceedings 1673-1701. Set out are rulings for imports, exports and tax on goods. For example in 1667, if a ship is wrecked with goods from Ireland it can be seized by anyone within a year. @kingsinns.bsky.social #archive #library

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The books bring together Irish documents, now destroyed in the Four Courts Fire 1922, and English land documents regarding the disruption and redistribution of land under #Cromwell. He donated his papers in hopes of helping future researchers.

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Our #Manuscript of the Month for June is our John Patrick #Prendergast Papers ‘The History of the Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland’. Comprised of 13 Vols and published in 1865. @kingsinns.bsky.social #ManuscriptoftheMonth #archives #landlaw

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Resolved that two gas lamps placed at the Entrance gate to the King’s Inns and two on the interior level in such situations and of such a design as will best answer for the convenience and ornament of the building and also that the outside woodwork shall be painted.

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Our Manuscript of the Month for May is Benchers’ Minute Book 1819-30, where decisions about the students, the society and buildings were made. Here they agreed to install gas lamps in 1825. #kingsinns #archive #library #history #historyofDublin #manuscript #manuscriptofthemonth #GeorgianDublin

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Another entertaining evening with @kingsinns.bsky.social Book Club discussing A History of the World in 47 Borders by Jonn Elledge. We left with a longer "must read more about..." list!

Group of people on screens holding a book

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

‘In all these creatures claimed & made tame a man has only a Qualified property, for upon their return to their Old State they then become the property of the first Occupier’

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Our Manuscript of the Month for April is an 18th century lecture on the Charter of the #Forest that sets out laws regarding the #environment, hunting and ownership of animals, such as hounds, hawks and deer.

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Architect #JamesGandon (1743-1823) designed many iconic buildings in Dublin such as The Custom House and @kingsinns.bsky.social main building. 240 years ago he completed The Four Courts building with his signature copper dome. Originals held in the Irish Architectural Archive #architecture

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Our #Manuscript of the Month for March is MS12 which tells the tale of the #Iliad. Including the destruction of #Troy and the search for the #GoldenFleece. It was written in 1492 and can be seen fully digitized here through @dias-isos.bsky.social www.isos.dias.ie/KINGS/KINGS_... #Gaeilge #SnaG26

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

From our unique Irish #Manuscripts Collection "The Names in English, Irish, and Latin; of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Reptiles, or Insects, which are known and propagated in Ireland" See it here: www.isos.dias.ie/KINGS/KINGS_... @dias-isos.bsky.social #Gaeilge #SnaG26 #Irish #IrishLanguage #gael

A three column list of animals, fish and insects in English, Irish and Latin. Includes cockle, cow, cuttle, cricket.

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

‘I have attempted with humble & patient care to present to the reader the state and progress of the legal profession in Ireland, it has appear’d respectable even when the light of learning was sunk through Europe, and the law itself obscured by surrounding barbarism in succeeding Periods.’

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

February’s #Manuscript of the Month is Bartholomew Duhigg’s History of the King’s Inns. #Duhigg, #barrister and #librarian, published the History in 1806 and we hold his manuscript of it with additions and corrections. He wrote of King’s Inns and the various influences on it and the legal profession

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Happy #LunarNewYear 🐴 To mark the #YearOfTheHorse we found this gorgeous illustration from "The Pageant of Chinese History" by Elizabeth Seagar and illustrated by Bernard Watkins.

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

New book on the constitution of the European Union added to the library's collection

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

New edition of 'The Art and Craft of Judgment Making' by Max Barrett now in the library

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

New EU data privacy book added to the library's collection

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

New edition of 'Legal Skills' by Finch & Fafinski now in the library

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

On one folio it states a man needs to have completed 5 years in an English Inn to become a member of King’s Inns (1670), and another folio it states that a stile must be erected to keep cattle out of the grounds (1609).

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Our Manuscript of the Month for January is ‘The Black Book’ – the most important #manuscript in our #archive. It’s the earliest institutional record we have of the King’s Inns, from 1607 to 1729. It contains admissions, minutes, accounts and an insight into daily life in Dublin 400 years ago.

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Stamps used to be, quite literally, stamped onto documents. The beautiful #embossing was an elegant way to show that the right money was paid to the right people. In the King's Inns archive we find #stamps from the last few centuries.

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Here's a scribe who drew what he would rather be doing than working - smoking a pipe. In the @kingsinns.bsky.social we hold numerous Irish Manuscripts that discuss the history of Ireland, Greek Myths and Christianity www.isos.dias.ie/collection/k... View it online with @dias-isos.bsky.social

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

#JohnBYeats is our literary link who joined the King’s Inns 1866 but followed his passion for painting. His children William, Jack, Susan & Elizabeth became creatives. Their periodical 'A Broadside' was pub. by #Cuala. Managed by the sisters, printed by Elizabeth, edited by William & ill. by Jack

Line drawing by Jack B Yeats of a horse drawn sleigh in the snow. 'A Long Time Ago' is written below.

Photograph of A Broadside, a periodical printed by Cuala Press showing a hand painted line drawing of two men riding horse down a path talking to one another. Below the illustration is a partial view of a poem titled 'Bold Captain Freney' The periodical is dated December 1913.

A picture of a memorial from the King's Inns for John Butler Yeats. It states that he is to be admitted to the Degree of Barrister at Law.

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

New book on registration of deeds and title acts added to the collection

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Thomas Moore (1779 – 1852) is our November literary link. On 02/11/1796, he was admitted as a student into the King’s Inns. His love of literature led him to publish his collection of Irish songs Moore’s Melodies. In the foreword, the author writes ‘To Moore our native music shall ever be indebted’.

Cover of the Irish translation of Moore's Melodies by the John Archbishop of Tuam.

Section of the preface to Moore's Melodies "To Moore our native music shall ever be indebted"

Memorial of Thomas Moore's student admission to the King's Inns for the 2nd of November 1796.

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

New edition of The Law of Local Government by David Browne now in the library

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

New edition of Child Law in Ireland by Lydia Bracken now in the library

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

New book on money laundering added to the library's collection

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Called to the bar in 1944, her autobiography 'The Same Age as the State' includes details of her time at King's Inns, her career as a diplomat and beyond.

extract from barrister memorial of Maire Mhac an tSaoi

Front cover of book The Same Age as the State

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Máire Mhac an tSaoi (4/4/1922 - 16/10/2021) is our literary link for October. A renowned Irish language poet, her 1956 collection 'Magadh na Saoire' is part of @kingsinns.bsky.social collection

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

King’s Inns Library collection includes his works ‘The Day’s Burden’, ‘The Ways of War’ and ‘Irish Orators and Oratory’ seen here listed in an extract from our guard catalogue.

handwritten entry in King's Inns library catalogue listing works by Tom Kettle

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

September’s literary link with King’s Inns is Tom Kettle (1880-1916), writer and poet who died at Ginchy during the Battle of the Somme in on 9 September 1916. He enrolled as a student in @kingsinns.bsky.social in 1903 and was called to the Bar in Easter Term 1906.

extract from barrister memorial of Thomas Michael Kettle

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

His father, William John Johnston (1868-1940), also a barrister, and later a Supreme Court judge, authored commentaries on Land Purchase, and the Labourers Act. His daughter was Jennifer Johnston (1930-2025), author of ‘How many miles to Babylon?’ and ‘Shadows on our Skin’.

title page of the labourers act by William Johnstons

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Author of plays including ‘The old lady says ‘No!’’ and works from the @kingsinns.bsky.social collection ‘In search of Swift’ and ‘Nine Rivers from Jordan’. #literature

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Our literary link for August is (William) Denis Johnston (1901-1984), playwright and author who died on 8 August 1984, was called to the Irish Bar in 1925 #barrister.

extract from barrister memorial of Denis Johnston

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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

In 1897 he was elected to the Federal Convention, later serving terms as Attorney General, Minister for External Affairs and Minister for Home and Territories. King's Inns Archives holds his Barrister Memorial, his obituary in the Irish Law Times & Solicitors Journal is in the library collection.

Extract from barrister memorial of Patrick Glynn McMahon

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