Brehon Law: From Divorce to Irish Sex Magic
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Divorce and sex magic are not things we associate with medieval Ireland. However for over one thousand years Irish society was governed by a unique and radically different legal system called Brehon Law. In this podcast I interview Dr Gillian Kenny (twitter.com/medievalgill) who explains what Brehon Law was and how it worked. She challenges widely held misconceptions and explains how divorce existed in medieval Ireland given it was banned in modern Ireland until 1995!.
And then of course there is the sex magic.
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| 1:25.0 | It's a world where illegitimacy doesn't even exist. |
| 1:30.0 | She could divorce him if you told other people about their sex life. |
| 1:34.0 | Hello and welcome to the Irish History Podcast. |
| 1:38.0 | My name is Finn Duwir and what you've just heard there is Dr. Gillian Kenny talking about Brehan Law. |
| 1:44.9 | This gives you some sense about what lies ahead in this episode, Brehen Law, |
| 1:49.6 | from divorce to Irish sex magic. This podcast obviously has nothing to do with the story of |
| 1:56.2 | the great famine but I'm currently preparing the second-last episode in the series on |
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