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

For over half a century, until the destruction of the Four Courts in 1922, the Society of Attorneys and Solicitors provided legal education for apprentices in a purpose built lecture theatre in the former Solicitor’s Building in the Four Courts… Continue reading

Irish solicitor John Gore-Grimes, fox-hunting at Tallaght, when it was still fields, c. 1925. Zoom in here. Also in the image is noted Irish equestrian Molly Morgan Byrne, daughter of Irish barrister Henry Morgan Byrne, who recovered from a broken… Continue reading