1848, Earliest Known Photograph of 4 Courts, Dublin.

By a Quinquagenarian, the Pre 1797 Four Courts at Christchurch, Dublin, Hell and ‘Our Four Courts, thank the Genius of our Isle, is still full of business; and as long as Erin remains the land of Ire, so long surely will Lawyers fatten, and Attorneys Batten on the Quarrelsome and Litigious Propensities of Our People, Big Bully Egan, Little Philpot Curran, Black Jack Fitzgibbon, Henry Grattan, Ned Lysaght, Lord Yelverton..

1832, Four Courts, Dublin , showing River Taxis, before destruction of 1922 and later suggestion that complex be turned into a surface car park together with ruined Custom House.

Seán McBride (Later Senior Counsel, Minister for External Affairs and Assistant General Secretary United Nations, High Commissioner for Namibia) at IRA Convention, Exchange Hotel Dublin, June 1922 ”All Those in Favour of The Republic, Come To The Four Courts, Leading Ultimately to The Destruction Of 1,000 Years of Ireland’s Records.

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