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Researching Royalty: Deciphering Regnal Years

If you have ever found yourself tracing a statute far back into history, working with very old legislation, or completing any research that takes you back into the distant annals of time, you may have encountered a source note that looks quite different than the rest. While we are used to source notes that follow the more intuitive formula of calendar year, chapter, and section (i.e. 2000, c. 41, s. 18), if we go back far enough, we encounter a time when regnal years sorted themselves into the equation.

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Join Us for Monday Legislative Refresher Sessions

Due to the great response over the past week to our one-on-one legislative research tutorials, we have decided to run an online legislative refresher every Monday at 1:00 p.m. until Monday, May 17^th.

Irish Law for an Irish Day

In honour of St. Patrick’s Day, we’ve created a pared-down primer of the best free sources of Irish law, followed by links to a few, perhaps more interesting, Irish legal websites.

The focus of our post today is the Republic of Ireland. For sources covering the law of Northern Ireland, see the Great Library’s general guide, Where to Find UK and Irish Law.

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