Offences against the State Act

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 698 words | Copyright

Offences against the State Act (1939), security legislation, replacing the Public Safety Acts of the Cumann na nGaedheal government, introduced in response to the IRA bombing campaign in Great Britain. The act gave a new definition of unlawful associations and provided for the establishment of a special court to try both specific types of cases and any others referred to it by the government. Clauses permitting internment without trial were declared unconstitutional, but were successfully reintroduced in an amending act (1940). The act was used extensively against the IRA during the Second World War, during the border campaign, and, from 1972, in response to the Northern Ireland conflict.

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