Ruth Cannon
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Lovelorn Stenographer Sues to Recover Money Lent to Impecunious Solicitor Boss, 1908
The case of Fermin v Walker, involving a Dublin solicitor and a loyal and perhaps too loving stenographer, as reported in the Londonderry Sentinel, 28 March 1908. A transcript of the clipping is included below for those who have difficulty… Continue reading
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Ms. Justice Mella Carroll as a Student at the King’s Inns, 1956
A nice write-up and photograph of trainee barrister Mella Carroll by Barbara Page in her ‘Women’s Saturday Magazine’ in the Evening Herald, 21 January 1956. As all Irish barristers know, Mella subsequently went on to become the first female judge… Continue reading
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Legal Friends Come to the Rescue as Irish Barrister Slips and Falls on Holiday in Malahide, 1919
An Irish barrister holidays at his vacation bungalow in Malahide in 1919, only to injure himself while rushing to assist a lady in difficulty (chivalry can have its drawbacks). Fortunately, there were a bevy of legal friends there to assist!… Continue reading
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Irish Barrister of the Week: Arthur O’Connor (1763-1852)
Compiled from the Illustrated London News, The Sketch, Advocate, Dublin Evening Telegraph, Connaught Telegraph, London Daily Chronicle, Evening Herald (Dublin), Daily Gazette, Weekly Dispatch, Ashbourne News Telegraph, and Kerry News, this account of the life of Irish barrister Arthur O’Connor,… Continue reading
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How Sausage Skin Won Edward Carson a Silk Gown, 1893
A fascinating and eminently readable account by Jack Allen, published in the Belfast News-Letter of 28 June 1966, about midlife legal career re-inventor and Wilde cross-examiner Edward Carson, and how he overcame professional struggles following his transition from the Irish… Continue reading
