The Munster Bar could and may still be a precarious place to make a living.   Sir Redmond Barry who left Cork for Melbourne was asked why  replied that at the Munster Bar ‘there were hats for 40 and work for 20’.

Early Cork Lawyers:

_Legal Personel Early Cork, Ireland, 15th November 2018

 

Cork barristers, Sir William Foster Stawell (1815-89), Oldcourt Co. Cork to Attorney General and Chief Justice, Melbourne, Redmond Barry (1815-89), Ballyclough, Co. Cork Chief Justice, Victoria, 40 hats on the Munster Circuit 1842 and not enough work for 20, and the development of Australian Legal Infrastructure

March 1719, Munster Circuit, Assizes Sitting at the Tholsel, Cork, Lord Chief Baron Gilbert and Mr. Baron Pockington.

Barristers of the Munster Circuit, 1886,  including ‘Peter the Packer’ later Lord O’Brien of Kilfenora, 2nd Serjeant.

 

Necrology of Frank (Francis J.B.) Healy, (1869-1931), Barrister on Munster Circuit, Wilmont Castle, Cobh, Co. Cork, Imprisosned Richmond Gaol and English Gaols, Antiquarian, Contributor to defunct ‘Cork Ivernian’, Council Member Cork Archchaeological Society, Notebooks 1909 re Jim Larkin’s Trial for Theft of Union Funds, Corespondent of John Devoy, correspondence Judge Coholan, New York.

 

Cork barristers, Sir William Foster Stawell (1815-89), Oldcourt Co. Cork to Attorney General and Chief Justice, Melbourne, Redmond Barry (1815-89), Ballyclough, Co. Cork Chief Justice, Victoria, 40 hats on the Munster Circuit 1842 and not enough work for 20, and the development of Australian Legal Infrastructure

Sir Michael Henry Gallwey (182-1912), mother Margaret McCarthy, Greenfield, Ardfield, Clonakilty, Co. Cork, K.C.M.G., Q.C., Leading Member of the Munster Circuit, Attorney General, Natal, South Africa, Chief Justice, Acting Governor, president Arbitration Commission of the Land Dispute between the Transvaal Republic and the Zulus, brother-in-law of James J. Murphy, Brewer, Cork

 

1847 from Law Society Directory:

 

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1917 from Law Society Directory:

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