The Grand Canal, Dublin, at Wilton Place, between Baggot Street and Leeson Street Bridge, by Edward Tomkins, via Whytes.ie From the Clonmel Chronicle, 20 December 1882: “A DUBLIN BARRISTER FOUND DROWNED The body of the late Mr. Robert Donnell BL… Continue reading

From Saunders’s News-Letter, 19 January 1837: “The Dowager Lady Ventry died at her lodgings last evening. The demise of this unfortunate lady will, we hope, enable a respectable citizen and a barrister of great standing and practice, to resume his… Continue reading

From the Freeman’s Journal, 12 July 1922:- “Artistic Dublin is more than anxious to learn the full fate of the superb seated statue of Sir Michael O’Loghlen, Master of the Rolls, which the Bar of Ireland erected in the Round… Continue reading

From the Irish Examiner, 3 November 1941: “After eight days in a lifeboat, following the torpedoing off the West African coast of a Dutch ship in which he was travelling, Mr Robert Lindsay Sandes, a Dublin barrister who has been… Continue reading

The character of Professor Moriarty in Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘Sherlock Holmes’ stories may have been inspired by Doyle’s Stonyhurst classmate John Francis Moriarty, who subsequently went on to become an Irish barrister and judge of the Court of Appeal in… Continue reading