{"product_id":"murder-trials-in-ireland-1836-1914-w-e-vaughan-9781846821585","title":"Murder Trials in Ireland, 1836-1914","description":"The book describes how the courts dealt with murder, beginning with the coroner's inquest and ending with the conviction and hanging of the murderer. Between these two points the exquisite, almost balletic, procedure, of the courts and their officers is described, the Crown's case against the prisoner is analyzed, and the prisoner's defense is discussed. Magistrates, policemen, crown solicitors, witnesses, jurors, judges, and hangmen make their appearances. The prisoners, whose silence before and during their trials was their most notable characteristic in the nineteenth-century courts, make their apperances too, but not as prominently as their judicial custodians, until they finally and briefly come into the limelight on the gallows. An implicit theme of the book is the apparent contradiction between the apparent simplicity of the courts' procedures and the complexity of the rules that determined their operation. The book relies on a range of printed primary sources, such as newspapers, parliamentary papers, law reports, and legal textbooks, and on MS sources in the National Archives such as the Convict Reference Files. (Series: Irish Legal History Society)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e W. E. Vaughan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1846821584\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781846821585\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Four Courts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2010 pg. 184","brand":"W. E. Vaughan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48519531725055,"sku":"9781846821585","price":74.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_16d80f5e-2e88-4222-bcf0-b4584bc42e7e.jpg?v=1778737685","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/murder-trials-in-ireland-1836-1914-w-e-vaughan-9781846821585","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}