# When Ireland was Stateless

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/portraits-of-liberty/when-ireland-was-stateless>

**By** Kevin Flanagan, Paul Meany

**Published:** May 20, 2021

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For nearly a millennium, the Irish lived without a state under a legal system known as Brehon Law.

## Summary:

A lot of people talk about abolishing the state, but can it be done? Often the status quo says no. Founder of the Brehon Law Academy, Kevin Flanagan, disagrees and explains that Ireland was a stateless society for hundreds if not thousands of years.