Homicide
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Famous Irish Trials: The Earl of Kingston’s Trial for Murder, 1798
From the Waterford Citizen, 7 September 1888, this gripping account of the circumstances surrounding an Irish Earl’s trial for murder before a jury of his peers in the Irish House of Lords – the last such trial that was ever… Continue reading
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Famous Irish Trials: The Italian Boy and the Delahunt Murder, 1841-2
In 1923 the Dublin Evening Telegraph ran an excellent ‘Famous Irish Trials’ series. No. 8 in the series, published on 14 April 1923, involved two apparently unconnected murders linked by the mysterious figure of teenager John Delahunt. Like many murky… Continue reading
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Barbarous Spouse Murder in Smithfield, Dublin, 1710
From the Dublin Intelligence, 28 March 1710: “Francis Eustace, Junior, formerly of Castlemore in the County of Catherlough, now of the City of Dublin, aged 25 or 26 years, a middle size slender Man, an oval face, a ruddy Complexion,… Continue reading
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Disagreement at Inquest as Sandymount Schoolboy Dies following Caning, 1885
From the Freeman’s Journal, 26 October 1885 “DEATH OF A SCHOOLBOY WHILE BEING CANED PROCEEDINGS IN THE POLICE COURT On Saturday morning in Northern Division of Police Court before Mr Charles J O’Donel, John McNamee, schoolmaster of the Star of… Continue reading
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The Body under the Bed, 1864
A fascinating Belfast defamation action arising out of a most unusual misunderstanding, as reported in the Cork Constitution, Friday 29 July 1864: “At the Belfast Quarter Sessions, before Mr. Otway QC, the case of Louisa Fraser v Patrick McCabe came… Continue reading