Ep. 878 Anarchism in Ireland: The History Nobody Knows

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Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

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🗓️ 28 March 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The legal system that prevailed in Ireland for thousands of years was radically different from what we are familiar with today, with our monopoly judges and emphasis on retribution over restitution. But if you were to ask the average American about any of this, the result would be a blank stare. Hence today's episode.

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 878.
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0:07.8	Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.
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0:25.2	free trial plus an automatic 25 smacker discount. Hello everybody. Tom Woods here.
0:31.3	Talking about Ireland today. And Ireland's very, very interesting history. People have called it
0:37.4	anarchism in Ireland. Well, whatever you want to call it, very interesting history. People have called it anarchism in Ireland. Well,
0:39.5	whatever you want to call it, the legal system that prevailed in Ireland for many centuries is
0:45.3	quite different from what we're familiar with in Western civilization today. And it is,
0:52.6	it sounds more like something out of a Murray Rothbard book than anything else.
0:57.6	And I wanted to talk about that subject because a lot of times people say, oh, there's no way you could have the kind of system you libertarians are describing, why we need the state for X, Y, and Z.
1:08.1	But this is a very, very interesting, and I rather suspect little known
1:15.2	counter-example. And joining us to talk about this is a man who has spent a good deal of time
1:22.5	and a good number of years researching and speaking about this, and that's Kevin Flanagan,
1:29.3	who is program manager at European Students for Liberty. He's also director and instructor at the Brehon Law Academy.
1:35.7	I will be linking to his material at tomwoods.com slash 878. Kevin, welcome to the show.
1:42.7	Hello, Tom. Thank you very much for inviting me on.
1:45.2	It's a pleasure to be speaking with you.
1:47.0	I did a video not too long ago with a professor from University College Dublin called, I don't remember what the video was called, but it had to do with Irish anarchism.
1:57.6	And he was insisting that for 2,000 years, Ireland had nothing that we would
2:02.8	recognize as a state. And he went on and described it. But it was a short little video.
2:06.9	Then I came across your material just very recently. And you've given quite a number of talks,
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