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The Brehon Laws Hosted at Library Ireland, an online resource for Irish books, this is searchable copy of The Brehon Laws by Laurence Ginnell (1854-1923), the Irish nationalist politician. Originally published in 1894, the book discusses ancient native Irish law applicable in Gaelic areas until the English conquest of Ireland in the early seventeenth century.
Guide to Early Irish Law Extensive online bibliography of works published on medieval Irish law 1988-2014: Bart Jaski, “A Supplement to the Bibliography of Fergus Kelly, A Guide to Early Irish Law. Early Irish Law Series 3 (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1988) 287-95.
Corpus Iuris Hibernici ed. D. A. Binchy (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,1978), 6 vols. Contains all Old/Middle Irish legal texts in their original language organized by manuscript source. Apparatus (Vol. 1) include a Concordance of Published Tracts, list of manuscripts used, and list of contents of all six volumes. Online Index available at University of Vienna.
Cáin Lánamna Translation and bibliography available on CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition. Also called “The Law of Couples,” this Old Irish text, which dates to c. 700, describes different types of marriages and how property should be allocated after a divorce. See also Cáin Lánamna: An Old Irish Tract on Marriage and Divorce Law, ed. Charlene Eska, Medieval Law and Its Practice, vol. 5 (Brill, 2009), for an English translation of the text and its many associated glosses and commentaries.