Famous trials
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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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Excitement at The Four Courts For the Bottle Riot Trial, 1823
From the Belfast News-Letter of 7 February 1823, an evocative description of scenes at the Four Courts on the first day of the trial of Henry Handwich, George Graham and others for conspiracy to assault the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland… Continue reading
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The Trials of Miss Tucker, or, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Yore, 1839
From Saunders’s News-Letter, 7 February 1839 (abridged) “COURT OF QUEEN’S BENCH – YESTERDAY ABDUCTION – EXTRAORDINARY CASE The Queen, at the prosecution of Mabel Tucker, v Peter Yore, Thomas Flood, Michael Bradley, Mary Meehan and Anne Cooney This case, which… Continue reading