(or the Great Charter of Ireland) is an issue of the English ''

Magna Carta (Medieval Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called (also ''Magna Charta''; "Great Charter"), is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. First drafted by the ...

'' (or Great Charter of Liberties) in

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

. King

Henry III of England Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272. The son of King John and Isabella of Angoulême, Henry a ...

's Charter of 1216 was issued for Ireland on 12 November 1216 but not transmitted to Ireland until February

1217 Year 1217 ( MCCXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Fifth Crusade * Summer – Various groups of French knights reach the Italian ports. King And ...

; it secured rights for the

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magnates in Ireland.

Art Cosgrove Art Cosgrove, (born 1 June 1940) in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland, was president of University College Dublin (UCD) between 1994 and 2003. Education He was educated at the Abbey Christian Brothers' Grammar School, Newry.https://www.ucd.ie ...

''A New History of Ireland, Volume II: Medieval Ireland 1169-1534'' p.152, Oxford University Press, 1987 The Charter was reissued in 1217 as in

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

. It was in effect the application of ''Magna Carta'' to Ireland, with appropriate substitutions (such as "Dublin" for "London", and "Irish Church" for "Church of England"). The only known copy of the Charter was once to be found in the ''Red Book of the Dublin Court of Exchequer'', a manuscript volume compiled in the fourteenth century. The ''Red Book'' was destroyed in the explosion at the Four Courts in

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

, in 1922, but the Charter had been recorded by H. F. Berry in ''Early Statutes of Ireland'' (1907). Magna Carta Hiberniae 1216 (1 Hen. 3) is now a retained statute in the

Republic of Ireland Ireland ( ga, Éire ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern side of the island. A ...

under the

Statute Law Revision Act 2007 The Statute Law Revision Act 2007 is an Act of the Oireachtas of the Republic of Ireland which repealed a large amount of pre-1922 legislation of Ireland, England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom while preserving a shorter list of statutes. ...

, s.2(2)(a), Schedule 1.

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Magna Charta Hiberniae 1216 (Great Charter of Ireland)
William Sharp McKechnie, Historical Introduction to Magna Carta (1914)
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Statute Law Revision Act 2007
1210s in law Irish laws Law of Northern Ireland Legal history of Ireland 1216 in Europe 13th century in Ireland Medieval charters and cartularies {{Ireland-law-stub

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