Barristers
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Legal Friends Come to the Rescue as Irish Barrister Slips and Falls on Holiday in Malahide, 1919
An Irish barrister holidays at his vacation bungalow in Malahide in 1919, only to injure himself while rushing to assist a lady in difficulty (chivalry can have its drawbacks). Fortunately, there were a bevy of legal friends there to assist!… Continue reading
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Irish Barrister of the Week: Arthur O’Connor (1763-1852)
Compiled from the Illustrated London News, The Sketch, Advocate, Dublin Evening Telegraph, Connaught Telegraph, London Daily Chronicle, Evening Herald (Dublin), Daily Gazette, Weekly Dispatch, Ashbourne News Telegraph, and Kerry News, this account of the life of Irish barrister Arthur O’Connor,… Continue reading
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How Sausage Skin Won Edward Carson a Silk Gown, 1893
A fascinating and eminently readable account by Jack Allen, published in the Belfast News-Letter of 28 June 1966, about midlife legal career re-inventor and Wilde cross-examiner Edward Carson, and how he overcame professional struggles following his transition from the Irish… Continue reading
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The Married Life of an Irish Junior Barrister, as fictionalised by the Lady of the House, 1896: Parts II and III – the Wedding, the Honeymoon and the Return
Parts II and III of the entertaining fictional series, ‘A Junior Barrister,’ from the Lady of the House, 1896, reprinted in the same publication in 1910, about the marital vicissitudes of Arthur Morris, a young Irish barrister practising in the… Continue reading
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The Married Life of an Irish Junior Barrister, as fictionalised by the Lady of the House, 1896: Part 1 – The Proposal
From the Irish women’s magazine ‘The Lady of the House’ (1896), Part 1 of the entertaining fictional series, ‘A Junior Barrister,’ about the marital vicissitudes of a young Irish barrister practising in the Four Courts, Dublin, Ireland in the last… Continue reading
