The Brehon Laws Quotes

“The Irish system had this advantage over the Roman system, that when persons of an inferior grade had not sufficient property individually to qualify for the full rights of citizenship, as the rights of suing, of being jurors, witnesses, sureties, &c., a number of them might combine, form a guild or partnership, take a piece of land (presumably waste land), and this joint property, after they had cultivated it for ten years and fenced it off, would give a qualification for one of them to become an Aire, with all rights of citizenship and power to act for the partnership without external assistance.”
― Laurence Ginnell, The Brehon Laws: A Legal Handbook

“Remembering what gross and scandalous falsehoods are sometimes deliberately told of our own contemporaries, even by people of respectable and sanctimonious exterior, I cannot admit that there is any truth in those stories of the Gauls and their Druids who are unable to return with their explanation. It is probable that either Caesar was misinformed or some ceremony, observed by the Gauls in putting criminals to death, was misinterpreted to him or by him. At all events, there is no reason at all to think that human sacrifice ever was practised in Ireland.”
― Laurence Ginnell, The Brehon Laws: A Legal Handbook