A remarkable story from the College Street Magistrates’ Court, Dublin, 1840, involving cruel treatment by a solicitor and sub-sheriff of Dublin, John Robert Malone, of his teenage daughter. Locked in her room at 5 Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin, without change of… Continue reading

An 1885 letter of complaint written to the Freeman’s Journal by James Hamerton, apprentice solicitor, bemoaning the door-closing policy of ‘Chew.’ the over-officious porter in the Solicitors’ Building, Four Courts, Dublin, Ireland. Compulsory lectures had been introduced for Irish apprentice… Continue reading

From the Dublin Evening Telegraph, 10 May 1877, this story of an action brought by one Armagh solicitor against another arising out of a confrontation in the barroom of Armagh courthouse (above). The term ‘the Bar’ in the article refers… Continue reading

From the Sphere, 23 May 1936, this photograph of Irish solicitor TG (‘George’) McVeagh competing in the Davis Cup of the same year. The firm established by him in Kildare Street survived well into this century. By the early 20th… Continue reading

From the pen of ‘H’ or ‘one who knew the city when he was a boy,’ as published in the Irish Builder, 15 June 1879, this Dickensian account of one of the more disreputable of the attorneys located in Chancery… Continue reading