Sharing the History of the Four Courts, Dublin, Ireland
From the Belfast News-Letter, 8th May 1916:
“REBELS AT ST STEPHEN’S GREEN
MESSAGE OF THANKS LEFT
The offices of Messrs. Keating & Keating, solicitors, 130 St Stephen’s Green, suffered rather severely at the hands of the rebels, who burrowed through the wall from the Turkish Baths, and also effected an entrance through the wall from the Grafton Street end. Mr Edward Keating gave an interesting account of the extraordinary condition in which he found the offices on last Monday
From the Evening Herald, 5 March 1925:
“A Chara – may one hope, from two lines in your most interesting article on the Four Courts, that Gandon’s original plan for the portico may at long last be executed and the renewed pile be adorned by the grand and noble entrance he designed.
‘The question of the Central Hall and its surroundings is under consideration.’
Your article appropriately appeared on the 3rd of March – the very date on which the foundation stone of the
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 Ireland. Not only that, but he also became one of that small but select category of barristers who end up marrying one of their clients.
The Ballymena Weekly Telegraph of 8 May 1915, in an article published at the time of Moriarty’s
From the Kilrush Herald and Kilkee Gazette, 11 January 1918:
“Round The Town
By the Man in the Street
There was a fine snowstorm on Monday and Tuesday which covered the ground several inches. In town it was made the most of by the rising generation of both sexes – yes, and their far elder in years too. There was a fierce war of snowballing in all the streets. There was no discrimination for anybody passing through, gentle or simple, lay or clerical. Solicitors and
From the Oxford Journal, 28 July 1764:
“IRELAND
Dublin, July 17. Last Friday Night some Revenue Officers made a Seizure at Howth of 160 Casks of Tea; but they were soon after attacked by a Number of Smugglers, when a desperate Engagement ensued, in which one Higley, a Smuggler, was killed; only seven Casks out of the whole Parcel, were carried off by the Officers. A Brother to the Deceased was taken Prisoner by the Officers, and this Day sent to Town, guarded by a Serjeant and four private
From the Freeman’s Journal, 30 June 1838:
“A man named John Cowan was brought before the magistrates on a charge of having stolen a fawn in the Phoenix Park, on the preceding day.
Police Constable 97D stated that he met the prisoner on the King’s Inns Quay, with a suspicious looking bundle under his coat; on searching him he found a live fawn concealed on his person.
The prisoner said he was returning from the review, with a number of other persons, and saw the fawn lying beneath
From the Irish Times, 22 November 1867:
“Sir – I was sitting in the court of Queen’s Bench yesterday, and while counsel was reading a long affidavit I applied myself to the columns of the Standard newspaper. Suddenly the Lord Chief Justice called out to me – ‘This is not a place for the public to read newspapers.’
I understood this as a prohibition, and of course desisted. But the question has since
A three minute video, the first of a two-parter about a long forgotten but once widely publicised crime of 1861 involving a Dublin cab driver, a 19-year old governess and an allegation of assault with intent to violate in the vicinity of what is now Alexandra College, Milltown.
There was a subsequent trial in the Commission Court, Green Street, involving multiple twists and turns and interesting issues regarding identification evidence. I hope to cover the trial and its aftermath in more detail