By James W. Houlihan In the early summer of AD 697 the Law of the Innocents—Lex Innocentium in the annals, also known as Cáin Adomnáin—was proclaimed at Birr, Co. Offaly. (See HI 23.1, Jan./Feb. 2015, pp 14–17.) It was a law for the protection of innocents, what we call today non-combatants, primarily—though not exclusively—in times ... Read more
