Turning wigs and gowns into spades and pickaxes : in the post-Famine litigation lull, business at the 1852 Wexford Sessions was so bad that a New Ross solicitor with farming expertise published a letter to the legal profession – possibly tongue-in-cheek – offering free instruction in spade husbandry!
Clipping from the Munster News, 6 November 1852.
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