Bigamy
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Counsel for the Defence Skilfully Evades Challenge to a Duel to Secure Ireland’s Most Infamous Bigamy Acquittal, 1846
From the Annual Register of World Events, this account of a remarkable bigamy trial (or trials) in the Dublin Commission Court in 1846, culminating in a challenge to a duel issued by the prosecution solicitor to leading defence counsel. In… Continue reading
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Barrister’s Son Returns from the Dead, 1896
From the Cork Constitution, 5 March 1896: “DUBLIN WEDNESDAY To-day the Master of the Rolls had before him a case which brought to light a modern Enoch Arden. In 1866 William Henry Boyle, son of a well-known barrister, emigrated to… Continue reading
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The Man of Many Wives, 1884-1895
From the Illustrated London News, 14 June 1884: “At the Dublin Commission Court, before Mr Justice Lawson, on Saturday, Brian Denis Molloy, son of a magistrate for the County of Mayo, and who, on the death of his father, will… Continue reading