Sharing the History of the Four Courts, Dublin, Ireland

March 2021

  • Fun on Circuit, 1909

    From the Irish Independent, 2 July 1909: “ON CIRCUIT, by G.O. July is undoubtedly the pleasantest month in the barristers’ working year.  The Circuits are out then, and business is judiciously combined with pleasure.  The old stager, whose hair is… Continue reading

  • His Only Brief, 1896

    From the Weekly Irish Times, 27 June 1896: “HIS ONLY BRIEF ‘QC, MP’ tells a true story infinitely full of pathos.  A fortnight ago a letter reached him in the handwriting of an old college friend, telling a pitiful story… Continue reading

  • The Goat of Morgan Place, 1881

    From the Freeman’s Journal, 22 April 1882: “ROBBERY FROM THE FOUR COURTS A fish dealer named Ennis was charged by Police Constable 69D with having stolen a goat, the property of Mr Alexander Blyth, Four Courts.  A workman named Michael… Continue reading

  • Legal Monkeys Hire Organ-Grinders to Disrupt Judge’s Party, 1846-66

    From the Derry Journal, 28 June 1909: “The recent successful campaign against the street organ-grinders in securing that persons who disliked it should not be annoyed by street music recalls a practical joke played on a learned Judge through the… Continue reading

  • No Catholic Testament in the Four Courts, 1919

    From the Weekly Freeman’s Journal, 6 December 1919: “In the King’s Bench Division – Probate, before Mr Justice Kenny, in the matter of the goods of Denis Dwyer, Deceased, the Rev James O’Sullivan, PP, attended, under an order of the… Continue reading

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