A video on the 1909 breach of promise action brought in Dublin’s Four Courts against Patrick Fagg, the serial jilter of Crossmaglen, the subject of the previous post. Hoping to make this the first of a new series on interesting… Continue reading

The Evening Irish Times of 11 October 1904 featured an article complaining about the condition of the statue of Sir Michael O’Loghlen in the Round Hall of the Four Courts. The statue had originally depicted the famous barrister and judge… Continue reading

From the Herald (Dublin), 16 April 1949, the interesting reaction of some members of Clare County Council to a suggestion by the then County Registrar that lawyers’ benches in lovely Ennis Courthouse (image above, via Buildings of Ireland) be re-upholstered.… Continue reading

From the Galway Advertiser, 4 April 1946, this uplifting account of a heartfelt welcome accorded to former barrister and Circuit Court Judge Cahir Davitt on his first appearance in Tullamore after his elevation to the High Court bench: “WELCOME FOR… Continue reading

The below article from the Irish Weekly Independent of 15 October 1949 recounts the unprecedented leap from the Law Library to the silver screen of Irish barrister and movie star Edward George Little, better known under his stage name Edward… Continue reading