The Brehon Laws of Early Ireland: An Introduction (Extract "Ancient Ireland Culture and Society)

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[@dramaghost999]

This is really cool. I started getting interested in this when someone asked about my last name (Brehony) and told me about Brehon law. I had known that my lineage had members that practiced law, but I didn’t know that it was something that I would actually take pride in, seeing as I’m not a huge fan of big government, anywhere. Thanks, I’ll be watching the rest of your videos.

[@chipdouglas5560]

I'm a Breheny

[@jennifershelley6938]

Very interesting and informative. Thank you for researching and sharing this.

[@dawnadriennetaylor970]

Beautifully told, thank you. I was nodding and pre-empting because I fondly remember a place we did not use money. I'm surprised the bee keeper had to pay for pledges, give produce and donate his bees before the payments were overlooked.

[@FreedomPhilosophyTV]

Dawn Adrienne Taylor The Ancient Irish had quite advanced debt systems. Currency consisted of gold beads and obviously barter items.

[@iamearthbornami]

Excellent..thanks for sharing

[@fivetwoeight528]

Absolutely brilliant re-search.

[@stevedoe1630]

I think the most important part of the “Judgement of the Bees” example is that the beekeeper had to be AWARE of the trespasses of his property. The awareness means there has to be selflessness in order to have empathy for the neighbors’ interests in maintaining each of their properties. Without this awareness, the agreements are not established , which exposes the beekeeper to future torts. In my ignorance, sounds like preventative contract law. I am sure it goes much deeper than this, as does most things from Ireland.

[@AngstyAsHell]

Wow very interesting and I definitely want to know more about the old knowledge. Thank you.

[@drywaller12345]

Top class Kevin

[@PoetryETrain]

Another great video. Thank you much!

[@IvyRoad]

So interesting! And beautifully presented. I knew nothing of this! Thanks :0)

[@tonycarton8054]

excellent

[@kurtbogle2973]

Thank you! I know the Irish are really a Holy people. I know about the old laws. I would like to point out something that I love and respect about the Irish. If you look at history you find that the Irish can only be oppressed for a short time. Then they turn it around on the oppressor. You might be able to occupy Ireland for a short time, but the price will be so high it will not be worth it. The Irish are indomitable! Their love of freedom will not allow them to knuckle under abd and say uncle. And then there's the music. Any type that you like. A plethora of musician's and singers. But I digress . The original laws of Ireland, are like the Turtle Island Indigenous Spirituality. There good and kind and correct for this planet and the Universe. Somehow we really need to return to what's Good and right in this Earth!

[@offwiththefairiesforever2373]

Thought they were wonderful , when I studied it in my early 20s

[@nigelmurphy6761]

these laws were not criminal laws but rather civil laws enacted by travelling judges known as the brehons hence the name and some remnants of these laws still survive in ireland to this very day.

[@eamonnmc1]

I really like what you do on here, but is there anyway you could look at what sort of a Soundsystem you’re using? There is a lot of reverb and bounce at certain points in your audio. I’m not trying to be critical I just want to make you aware.

[@BrehonAcademy]

This is quite an old recording, newer ones should be better but I'm always aiming to improve. I appreciate the comment and feedback.

[@Sygg-uj3ze]

It is volksgericht, but it is not "mere lynch law" and it is similar though not identical to, Germanic folk bodies of unwritten common law, Vehmic juries and wergild. It is an element of "restorative" beyond purely and narrowly retributive justice in European legal PRAXIS and deserves important scrutiny and selective adaptation to the most urgent present communal needs.

[@SasukeUchiha-pv4xn]

How were the brehon laws implemented , by the honor system ???

[@DeclinedMercy]

If you didn't pay, your close family members were responsible for paying, if your close family members didn't pay, your distant family members were responsible, if they didn't pay, your town was responsible for paying, Et cetera. A bit of honor, a lot of your family and community forcing you to be honorable.

[@johnrice1943]

Social enforcement

[@RaptorTroll360]

The beekeeper example is Reciprocity in action, in accordance to Propertarianism. Check out John Mark on KZbin and his videos, this is almost exactly what rule of natural law looks like where Reciprocity is the group survival strategy. Propertarian definition of Reciprocity: Every transaction has to meet these points: 1.Informed - there's no information about the transaction that one party knows and the other doesn't. 2.Consensual - both parties participate in the transaction on their own volition. 3.Warrantied - if the transaction imposes costs later down the line, a proper compensation is to be given. 4.Adds value - the transaction has to benefit everybody participating(incentive for point 2) 5.No negative externalities - this transaction cannot impose costs on any third party. Definition of property: Anything someone has invested in, and is willing to fight to protect can be defined as a form of property, either private property or commons - community owned property, for example a safe and clean neighborhood, every person in this neighborhood invests in the value of said neighborhood by behaving and acting in accordance with certain standards, restraining themselves from imposing costs, in return for short term gain(dumping garbage on the street, turning their house into a crackhouse, attracting drug addicts and criminals to the neighborhood), they uphold the standards and invest in the long term value of said neighborhood Natural Law: In all of nature there can be only three types of interaction: Neutral - does not add value or impose costs. Conflict - imposes costs; war, terrorism, violent crime, parasitism, coercion, racketeering, wage slavery, debt usury, lies, etc. Cooperation - adds value; free trade, investment, charity, cooperation(of course), etc. The Natural Law is basically the enforcement of "don't do onto others as you would not have done onto you", the more I look into ancient European history the more it seems that this principle came quite naturally to most Europeans, not always and not everywhere, but it appears to have been far more common than anywhere else in the world, which provided the European people with the best group survival strategy, best group evolution strategy and best civilizational practices that allowed us to build the Western Civilization, that almost every other ethnicity wants to live in except for some north-east Asians It has been subverted with the lies of "equality", well if all ethnicities are equal then why would we let them in our countries then? Can they not build their own nations as good if not better? If we're not equal why would we let them in? So that they can impose costs on us by destroying what our ancestors have built? TL;DR: It's very OK to be of European descent.

[@hunter5369]

They wera similar as the laws of natives peoples in the americas

[@paddyo3841]

Ireland the land of Saints and Scholars return unto your ancient ways

[@lallyoisin]

But how many of the bee keepers would actually cry for help? The most ambitious? The most ruthless? It's a serious question from someone interested in knowing! Peace!

[@SynKronos]

Doran myself. From the ancient Dorrian race. Anarkos is the only way!

[@conorfields506]

Irish culture on the rise Every piece of symbolism in the north is british

[@Irelandforever609]

Legal means undoing of Gods work

[@RehdClouhd]

🤣 with your accent and the way you pronounce 'third', I listened to you name King Edward the third as the "turd" at 2:30. I can't help but think maybe Irishmen simply used their accent as an excuse to call the English King a turd. Hahaha

[@eileencregg6754]

It makes my blood boil as Im learning just how britian got into so many wars. That country just goes in other countries and make people lose their cultures, languages and lives. It is sickening.

[@Sygg-uj3ze]

It is the Keltic and not the Norman-Roman culture forms adapted by the Anglo elite which are the root of the "All-American Love of Liberty", if and where that may genuinely exist.

[@zzebowa]

Sounds like Saxon law. Saxons had the 'law giver', one who could recite the law, like the Brehon. Murder did not result in punishment, but in paying a price, wereguild, to the injured party. Sounds very similar.

[@antseanbheanbocht4993]

Yes, I believe similar law existed throughout Europe but Irish law was uninterrupted by Roman occupation although it is believed the Roman church may have shaped some of it. It is true that you may only be forced to pay a fine for murder, but you could run into serious difficulties if you or your family could not pay that fine. I believe you could be given to the family of the person you killed who could themselves kill you or keep you in servitude.

[@zzebowa]

@@antseanbheanbocht4993 Sound reasonable! Turn you into their slave. Roman law of course came after saxon law in Briton, and out common law, the basis of our legal system, is still saxon common law. And is also used around the ex empire too.

[@antseanbheanbocht4993]

@@zzebowa Yes, but before the coming of the Romans to Britain the original inhabitants would have had their own system of law in place which would not have survived that conquest, Irish law survived unbroken and was still in existence in the seventeen century, even being used by many of the Great Norman or English family's.

[@zzebowa]

@@antseanbheanbocht4993 Yes, it is good that it was maintained, otherwise it would have been lost. In the same way Saxon law was maintained out of Romes reach, and then it came to the UK.

[@siofra3819]

The big difference is women had equal rights. Something that Germanic women did not have. Irish Women were entitled to enter all the same professions as men; they could be Druids, poets, physicians, lawgivers, teachers, warriors, leaders etc. Brehon law was miles ahead of its time.

[@geoffduke1356]

What the fuck is crime though man!??