Sharing the History of the Four Courts, Dublin

May 2020

  • A Successful Haunted House Defence, 1885

    From the Cambridge Independent Press, 28 February 1885: “A remarkable case was heard on Saturday in Dublin. Mr Waldron, a solicitor’s clerk, sued his next door neighbour, who is a mate in the merchant service, named Kiernan, to recover £500… Continue reading

  • Two Nights with Rose Lovely, 1823

    From the Morning Chronicle, 10 October 1823, yet another lesson in the dangers lurking for the unwary on the journey home from the Four Courts: “THE LOVELY ROSE – A dashing Cyprian, whose charms were quite in accordance with her… Continue reading

  • The Affair of the White Waistcoat, 1899

    From the Belfast Telegraph, 17 June 1899: “Yesterday, in the Four Courts, Dublin, in the course of a trial, Lord Chief Justice O’Brien observed that one of the Queen’s Counsel appeared in a white waistcoat, which was not professional costume.… Continue reading

  • The Devil’s Own, or, the Bar and the Boers, 1900

    From the Freeman’s Journal, 22 February 1900: “We have never been quite able to understand why the Four Courts has not raised a ‘Devil’s Own’ Corps for service in the present war. It was not that there were not plenty… Continue reading

  • Lawyer Relieved of Silk Handkerchief by Female Cutpurses, 1818

    From the Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser, 7 March 1818 “A few days since, a Professional Gentleman, on his return from the Four Courts, was accosted in D’Olier Street, Dublin, by two females, who said “Sir, some dirty people have… Continue reading

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