Sharing the History of the Four Courts, Dublin

April 2020

  • The Wandering Law Library Ventilator, 1879

    From the Northern Whig, 4 July 1879: “Today, about one o’clock, the glass dome, with heavy leaden ventilator in the centre of the Consultation Room, adjoining the Library in the Four Courts, fell in with a great smash, strewing the… Continue reading

  • Human Remains Beside the West Wing, 1834

    From the Dublin Observer, 4 January 1834: “Some workmen, employed in the course of the past week in sinking a sewer from the Four Courts to the river, in the course of their excavations discovered, at the depth of about… Continue reading

  • Unacceptable Sanitary and Timekeeping Arrangements, 1874

    From the Freeman’s Journal, 13 October 1874: “The Barristers’ Library is a crying disgrace… Barristers “look up” their cases in the Library, and also use it as a “trysting place” for meeting Attorneys. The Library is a room utterly unfit… Continue reading

  • A Judicial Levee in a Haunted House, 1901

    From the Belfast Newsletter, 15 April 1901: “Tomorrow the Easter sittings in the High Court begin, and according to old time ceremonial, Easter marks the beginning of the legal as it does the Christian year. So the Lord Chancellor Lord… Continue reading

  • Young Bar Fracas, 1829

    From the Belfast Newsletter, 6 November 1829: “On Saturday morning, at four o’clock, Mr Scully, the barrister, accompanied by Mr Blake, of Galway, and his brother-in-law, Mr R. Browne, were taking oysters, in Duke Street, Dublin, and entered into conversation… Continue reading

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