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Ireland
Éire

Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources

Constitution

  • Bunreacht na hÉireann (Ireland Taoiseach) in Irish; offered in PDF, HTML, and RTF
  • Constitution of Ireland (Ireland Government) in English
  • International Constitutional Law: Ireland (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation and Background Note
  • Constitution of the Irish Free State [Saorstát Eireann] Act, 1922 (Office of the Attorney General. Oifig an Árd-Aighna) in English

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Executive

  • Uachtaráin [President]
  • Taoiseach [Prime Minister]
  • An Roinn Gnóthai Eachtracha [Department of Foreign Affairs]
  • Government
  • Policies: Anglo-Irish (Ireland Government) in English

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Judicial

  • Court Services (Ireland Courts)
  • Supreme Court [An Chúirt Uachtarach]
    • Supreme Court Cases (British and Irish Legal Information Institute)
  • High Court [An Árd Chúirt]
  • High Court Cases (British and Irish Legal Information Institute)
  • Legal Professionals (Ireland Courts) includes law terms and legal diary pages

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Legislative

  • PARLIAMENT: Tithe an Oireachtais [Houses of the Oireachtas] - consisting of the Seanad Éireann [Senate] and the Dáil Éireann [House of Representatives]
  • Bilingual Acts of the Oireachtas
  • BAILII Cases and Legislation (British and Irish Legal Information Institute)
  • Irish Legal Information Initiative
  • Irish Statute Book (Ireland)
  • NATLEX: Ireland (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
  • Irish Law Site (University College Cork Law Department / Faculty)

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Legal Guides

  • Global Legal Monitor: Ireland (Law Library of Congress)
  • Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
  • Multinational Collections Database: Ireland (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
  • FindLaw: Ireland
  • ForIntLaw: Ireland (Washburn University Law Library)
  • Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases: Ireland (New York University Law Library)
  • Guide to Irish Law (Darius Whelan, via GlobaLex) June 2005
  • Irish Legal History: An Overview and Guide to the Sources (Janet Sinder, Duke University Law Library) - from 93 L. LIBR. J. 321 (2001)
  • Judicial Assistance: Ireland (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • JURIST: Ireland (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
  • World Legal Information Institute: Ireland (WorldLII)
  • World Legal Materials from Europe: Ireland (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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General Sources

  • Portals to the World: Ireland (Library of Congress)
  • Background Note: Ireland (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Ireland (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • Consular Information Sheet: Ireland (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Information: Ireland (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State) see reports listed under Europe / Independent States
  • Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Ireland (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Economic Briefing: Ireland (The Economist)
  • Embassy of Ireland, Washington
  • Governments on the WWW: Ireland (Gunnar Anzinger)
  • Human Rights in Ireland (Amnesty International)
  • International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Ireland (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • NATIONAL LIBRARY: National Library of Ireland [Leabharlann Náisiúnta NA hEireann]
  • NEWS: BBC World Europe; Irish Times
  • U.S. Embassy, Dublin (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • World Factbook: Ireland (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Ireland (Google); Ireland (University of Michigan); Ireland (Yahoo)

For more information on Ireland see:

  • Global Legal Monitor: Ireland

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