Sharing the History of the Four Courts, Dublin, Ireland

Ruth Cannon

  • The Bigamist Barrister, 1846

    From the Liverpool Mail, 18 April 1846: “At Dublin, on Saturday, the trial of Mr Henry Augustus Browne, barrister, for bigamy took place in the Commission Court… Mr Browne is a remarkably well-looking man of about 24 or 25 years… Continue reading

  • Bookstalls, Showmen and Dancing Dogs, 1821-1840

    From the Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail, 26 September 1840: “THE FOUR COURTS:- Although law is very busy in the interior, and the lawyers are not idle in their vocation, the exterior of the building resembles an unfortunate criminal, debarred… Continue reading

  • Armed Footpad Overpowered in Church Street, c. 1800

    From the Freeman’s Journal, 30 January 1882: “A curious reminiscence of… old Dublin life turned up at one of the central [police] stations on Friday… [A]n old gentleman entered the station… and produced a small silver-mounted flint pistol, evidently of… Continue reading

  • Case Citations and Personal Law Libraries, pre-1836

    From the Freeman’s Journal, 1 September 1890: “Modern text books now enable practitioners to dispense with much memorised learning laboriously acquired in former days… Within the recollection of men still living the library at the Four Courts did not exist,… Continue reading

  • The Pill Lane Fishwives, 1835

    From Saunders’ Newsletter, October 1835: “SIR – I beg, through the medium of your valuable Paper, to again call the attention of the Commissioners of the Paving Board to the intolerable nuisance, which has been so long suffered to continue… Continue reading