Rothbard on the Irish tuath system

Lila Rajiva recently posted a recommended excerpt from Rothbard’s book For a New Liberty in which he discusses the stateless polycentric legal system of medieval Celtic Ireland.

Keep in mind that Rothbard was not proposing literal recreation of the tuath system down to an honorary ceremonial priest-king and “freeman” status only for landowners, professionals and craftsmen. Rather, he was using the thousand year more-or-less stateless epoch in Ireland in an attempt to illustrate the principles that could also make a stateless legal system work in the future.