As published in the Leinster Reporter, 30 July 1921, an extract from ‘The Early History of Birr’ by barrister Thomas Lalor Cooke, detailing the intervention of Irish barrister and politician Daniel O’Connell to resolve a heated and potentially fatal challenge… Continue reading

Travel back to the roguish Dublin of times past with this tale of a distinguished Irish lawyer, who one day took a hackney car from the Four Courts only to find out that it was being pulled by his very… Continue reading

As all barristers will know, the dreaded event of ‘not being heard’ occurs when they are not allowed to address the court (new barristers often take the words ‘I cannot hear you’ literally, and speak louder!). There are various reasons… Continue reading

The risks of giving free legal advice are manifold, but never better illustrated than by this story from the Sligo Champion of 28 July 1945 regarding a famous Sligo barrister whose helpful recommendation to a servant was used against him… Continue reading

In the wonderful ‘Anecdotes of the Connaught Circuit’ by Oliver Joseph Burke, we find the above interesting reference to the ‘Catholic conveyancers’ of the 18th and early 19th century. Excluded from the Bar by reason of their religion, many Catholics… Continue reading