A stunning image by J. Huberts depicting businessmen, street hawkers, local women and mounted and kilted military going about their day against the backdrop of an unrecognisable Wood Quay. Buildings, vehicles and activities may have changed, but the courts, the… Continue reading

As detailed in the below story from the Freeman’s Journal of 10 October 1918, coal shortages at the end of the First World War led to a shortening of the legal day in the Four Courts. Courts now finished at… Continue reading

As republished in the Galway Observer, 21 March 1953, a satirical article about the Four Courts from the 1870-72 publication ‘Zozimus’, published by barrister and journalist Alexander Martin Sullivan, a member of the Healy-Sullivan dynasty which included, among others, his… Continue reading

The site of today’s Law Library in its previous incarnation as a Solicitors Hall, as published in ‘A Souvenir Album of the Dublin Fighting, 1922.’ The Solicitors Hall was used between 1840 and 1922 for meetings, lectures. It also hosted… Continue reading

A rare photograph of the pre-1922 Round Hall, from AL Richardson ‘Monumental Classic Architecture in Great Britain and Ireland’, 1913. The light coming through the portico confirms the view is of the south side of the Round Hall. The statue… Continue reading