Ruth Cannon, Barrister, Four Courts History
Sharing old stories from Ireland's historic centre of justice.
From the Cork Examiner, 2 March 1846
“MOST EXTRAORDINARY CASE – VERDICT OF £1000 DAMAGES AGAINST THE LATE LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN FOR THE SEDUCTION OF HIS OWN DAUGHTER
COUNTY WICKLOW ASSIZES – FRIDAY
The Hon Mr Justice Ball took his seat in the Record Court yesterday, at ten o’clock, and proceeded to try the following case:
Mary Carroll v Lohn Ladavaze Arabin, ex-Lord Mayor of Dublin.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover compensation for the seduction of her daughter, Mary
From the Leinster Reporter, 25 May 1918:
“DRILLING AT ROSCREA
Before a special court, Mr. J O’Sullivan RM, presiding, with Major Dease RM, on Wednesday at Templemore courthouse, Mr. JA Burke BL, was charged with drilling on the 24th of March and 7th April, at Roscrea, and with having taken part in drilling. He was also charged that on the 5th of May, at Corville, he took part in drilling.
The defendant, who had been removed from Limerick prison, where he had been on remand from the
From the Irish Press, 14 March 1947:
“It was ‘Raining’ In the Courts.
When the business of the two Circuit Courts was in progress for some time at Chancery Place, yesterday, water began to fall from the glass roof of the building into the two courtrooms.
Judge Connolly was hearing a claim for malicious damage to a thatched cottage by fire when the water began to drip quite close to the bench. It increased until it became a regular flow of water.
Water also began to fall in Judge Shannon’s
From the Morning Leader, 20 May 1908:
“AN OCTOGENARIAN HEIRESS
STRANGE ROMANCE OF AN IRISH FORTUNE
DEVON COTTAGER OF 89 COMES INTO ESTATES WORTH 13,000 POUNDS A YEAR
The big Magan heir-at-law case has come to an abrupt ending in the Irish Courts.
By consent of all the contending parties, Mrs. Joel Bartlett, aged 89, of the Cot, Branscombe, South Devon, is declared the lawful heiress to the Magan estates worth 13,000 pounds a year, Captain Magan, who had been two years in possession as heir, yielding
The ‘Slums of Dublin’ series in the Freeman’s Journal, 26 and 27 September 1884, carried the following account of the once great thoroughfares of Church Street and Bow Street.
Written in the usual moralistic tone adopted by the Freeman for articles of this type, it does however contain some interesting nuggets regarding these two historic streets at their nadir.
While the Church Street area ceased to be aristocratic by the mid-18th century, a lively merchant class thrived there
