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From the Derry Journal, 13 May 1913:

“BROKE JUDGE’S WINDOW

I’m sorry I hadn’t time to do more.  Don’t you know I’m a suffragette?” was the answer given by a woman named Mary Fisher when arrested on a charge of smashing a window in the residence at Stillorgan of Lord O’Brien, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.

In his evidence in the Dublin Police Court on Wednesday, Constable O’Brien [no relation] said he saw accused enter the front gate of Lord O’Brien’s residence, read more

From the Evening Irish Times, 2 August 1910:

“LAWYERS ON LONG VACATION

HOLIDAY IDEALS OF BENCH AND BAR

Trinity Term came to a close on Saturday.  At the Four Courts the only judge doing any business that day was Mr Justice Barton, who finished up a rather exacting term’s work by delivering two judgments and hearing some short applications.  Other judges were either going, or had already started, on their Long Vacation; and a goodly proportion of the Bar had also taken the first steps of read more

From the Irish Independent, 18 May, 1965:

 ‘Pearse’s only Court Brief – The Name on a Dray’ by Frank Byrne

‘One man can free a people as One Man redeemed the world’

(The Singer: PH Pearse)

Did any one man do more to free the people of Ireland than Padraic Pearse, who, sixty years ago today, in the courtroom of the King’s Bench Division, publicly espoused the sacred cause of freedom when, in his only court brief, he pleaded for the right of Irish farmers to put their names read more