Tag: Legal history

• Birr Courthouse, 1803-2013, part 2.Blog No 41, 05 August 2017.

  This is the second part of the article on Birr courthhouse. It was held over from last week to allow for an article on the 100th anniversary of de Valera’s visit to the county. 

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  August 5, 2017

  Journalism, Legal history

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• Henry Brenan, Crown Solicitor, King’s County 1916.Blog No 3, 15 June 2016.

   

  The crown solicitor, as the title suggests, represented the government much as the state solicitor does today.  It was, and is, the practice to appoint a legal representative in each county to whom the garda refer their cases for prosecution.  The document shown here was Brenan’s appointment on 27 July 1916. Brenan was saved by a few months in having to act against those concerned in the Tullamore Incident (released June 1916).

   

  

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  June 15, 2016

  1916, crown solicitor, Legal history, Tullamore Incident

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