The Reminiscences of Ignatius O'Brien, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1913–1921
A life in Cork, Dublin and Westminster
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The Reminiscences of Ignatius O'Brien, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1913–1921
A life in Cork, Dublin and Westminster
About this book
Ignatius O'Brien was the youngest son of a struggling Cork business family. After somewhat unhappy experiences at a Cork Vincentian school and the Catholic University of Ireland, he studied to become a barrister while supporting himself as a reporter on Dublin newspapers. Over time he built up a reputation in property and commercial law, and an ultimately successful career led to him being appointed a law officer and later lord chancellor under the post-1906 Liberal governments. He avoided party politics, but was a moderate home ruler who attributed the troubles besetting relations between Britain and Ireland to a failure to implement moderate reforms in time. After being created Baron Shandon on his removal as lord chancellor, he moved to England, where as a member of the House of Lords he was involved in various peace initiatives. His reminiscences of and reflections on the relatively self-contained world of mid-Victorian Cork, of student and journalistic work and play in Land War Dublin, of the struggles of an aspiring barrister on circuit, and of the declining years of Dublin Castle provide new insights into Irish life in the closing decades of the union. He also gives his impressions of prominent contemporaries, including Charles Stewart Parnell, Edward Carson, and Lord Chief Justice Peter O'Brien ("Peter the Packer"). The publication by the Irish Legal History Society of this important memoir is accompanied by detailed notes and commentaries on its legal and political context by Daire Hogan and Patrick Maume.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- In this series
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- List of abbreviations
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Appendix 1: 'A case in chancery'
- Ignatius O'Brien and the law
- Appendix 2: Judgment of Lord Shandon in court of appeal in Frost v The king, 20 Dec. 1918
- The Reminiscences of Ignatius O'Brien
- Appendix 3: O'Brien, Scallan, Horan: family relationships
- Bibliography
- Index