April 2022

  • Portico Problems, 1786-1925

    From the Evening Herald, 5 March 1925: “A Chara – may one hope, from two lines in your most interesting article on the Four Courts, that Gandon’s original plan for the portico may at long last be executed and the… Continue reading

  • Sandymount Lady Sues English Lieutenant for Breach of Promise, 1920

    From the Dublin Evening Telegraph, 31 March 1920: “A WAR-TIME COURTSHIP” Today in the King’s Bench Division, before Mr Justice Dodd, in the action of Sarah Reynolds, of 41 Londonbridge Road, Sandymount, Dublin, v Wm B Huskisson, Mr CS Campbell… Continue reading

  • A Robbery at the White Cross Inn, 1814

    From Saunders’s News-Letter, 11 October 1814: “A few days since a Welshman of the name of Owen Thomas, came to lodge at the White Cross Inn, Pill Lane, where a Mr Donald McKay, from Aughnacloy, likewise took up his abode.… Continue reading

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