The dome of the Four Courts, Dublin, Ireland, is visible in the far distance in Joseph Nash the Elder’s ‘A View of Dublin from the Liffey’ (1827), via Mutual Art. The Four Courts in 1827 was at the zenith of… Continue reading

An aerial view of the Four Courts, Dublin, Ireland by Leo Swan, via Europeana. Not much change in the Four Courts itself, but Swan’s image shows us Hammond Lane and Church Street as they were before the Law Library buildings… Continue reading

An 1885 letter of complaint written to the Freeman’s Journal by James Hamerton, apprentice solicitor, bemoaning the door-closing policy of ‘Chew.’ the over-officious porter in the Solicitors’ Building, Four Courts, Dublin, Ireland. Compulsory lectures had been introduced for Irish apprentice… Continue reading

Out of the eight men put on trial for homosexual offences in the Dublin Scandals of 1884, two of them – Gustavus Cornwall, the head of the Irish Post Office and James Ellis French – head of the Intelligence Department… Continue reading

That phenomenon of litigation and prosecution which became known as ‘the Dublin Scandals’ commenced in 1883 with a series of articles published by William O’Brien M.P. in his journal ‘United Ireland’. The articles were directed at James Ellis French, chief… Continue reading