Ruth Cannon BL, Barrister, Four Courts History
Sharing old stories from Ireland's historic centre of justice.
The character of Professor Moriarty in Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘Sherlock Holmes’ stories may have been inspired by Doyle’s Stonyhurst classmate John Francis Moriarty, who subsequently went on to become an Irish barrister and judge of the Court of Appeal in Ireland. Not only that, but he also became one of that small but select category of barristers who end up marrying one of their clients.
The Ballymena Weekly Telegraph of 8 May 1915, in an article published at the time of Moriarty’s
From the Kilrush Herald and Kilkee Gazette, 11 January 1918:
“Round The Town
By the Man in the Street
There was a fine snowstorm on Monday and Tuesday which covered the ground several inches. In town it was made the most of by the rising generation of both sexes – yes, and their far elder in years too. There was a fierce war of snowballing in all the streets. There was no discrimination for anybody passing through, gentle or simple, lay or clerical. Solicitors and
