Founded in 1848 and now in its fifth series, the Irish Jurist is Ireland's oldest legal periodical. It attracts contributions from expert scholars and leading academics throughout the common law and civil law worlds and enjoys a wide international readership. A commitment to the publication of scholarly material of the highest quality in the fields of historical, comparative and modern jurisprudence gives the journal its distinctive character. It is published in association with the Law Faculty, University College Dublin.

The discontinuance of the publication "after the issue of the 3rd prox." [i.e. November 3, 1905] is announced in no. 50 and 51 of volume 5. This copy ends with no. 51, October 27, and the Index, dated November 3, does not contain any references to pages of a later date.