https://docs.google.com/document/d/18WTLQ_l0rbp4tRG74o3KiLvRz85Av0JlHMxbTkeJuWs/edit#

This was part of the radical overhaul of the Irish Justice system post Independence ebay the Free State Government.

They abolished the Magistrates who still sit in Northern Ireland,  This was praised by the former Lord Chancellor Ignatious O’Brien, (Baron Shandon 1857-1930).

When the lord chancellor, Redmond John Barry, retired in 1913 O’Brien was appointed to the vacant post. While he was a hard worker he was neither diplomatic nor forceful enough to be truly effective, and was notorious for his long-winded and self-important judgments. His judicial philosophy favoured sweeping aside precedent and technicalities in favour of substantive justice as he saw it; hence he was on good terms with Peter O’Brien (qv), though he disapproved of his politics, and at odds with Christopher Palles (qv), though he acknowledged Palles’s eminence as a jurist. He greatly enjoyed the social side of his office and the ceremonies and amusements of the viceregal court.

O’Brien was nearly ousted as lord chancellor in 1915 in favour of James Campbell (qv) by the first coalition government – his removal was also sought by T. M. Healy and William O’Brien (qv) (1852–1928) – but was retained after a public outcry orchestrated by the Redmondites, which threatened to affect American public opinion.

He expressed guarded optimism for the future of the Irish Free State, and admired the government of W. T. Cosgrave (qv), praising such decisions as the replacement of JPs by paid district justices and the creation of an unarmed police force. He emerges from its pages as a sensitive and somewhat neurotic meritocrat, haunted at the sufferings inflicted by inefficiency, and believing that the great fault of British administration of Ireland under the union was not so much brutality as stupidity.

The reminiscences of Ignatius O’Brien, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1913-18

A life in Cork, Dublin and Westminster

Daire Hogan & Patrick Maume, editors

Hardback €49.50

Catalogue Price: €55.00

ISBN: 978-1-84682-871-3

September 2021. 330pp; ills.

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. 

Bram Stoker apart from writing, Dracula  was a qualified Barrister and spent 12 years as a Civil Servant in Dublin Castle.  When he resigned he was Inspector of Petty Session Clerks.  His guide “The duties of clerks of petty sessions in Ireland’  was used in the Irish District Courts until the mid 1930s

Peace Commissioners

• Introduction
• Finding a Peace Commissioner
• Rules
• Social Media Guidelines
• Rates
• How to apply
• Where To Apply

Introduction

Peace Commissioners are appointed (and may be removed from that appointment) by the Minister for Justice under Section 88 of the Courts of Justice Act 1924. The powers and duties of Peace Commissioners consist primarily of:

• Taking statutory declarations
• Witnessing signatures on documents if required by various authorities
• Signing certificates and orders under various Acts

The Courts of Justice Act 1924 gives Peace Commissioners the power to issue summons and warrants. These powers are less frequently used these days. Applications for search warrants should be made to the local District Court.

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1923 Appointment of Peace Commissioners Cork City and County.   Ignatious O’Brien (Baron Shandon) former Lord Chancellor approval of Free State Government Abolition of Magistrates.  Bram Stoker The duties of clerks of petty sessions in Ireland

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Right. Hon. James Francis 4th Earl of Bandon (1850-1924). Funeral Obits Constitutional Issue Arising from his Death as an Irish Representative Peer in the British House of Lords.

Right. Hon. James Francis 4th Earl of Bandon (1850-1924) , (see also Bernard) K.P., 1871, Castlebernard, Bandon.  Registered Vestryman of Christ Church, Kilmeen, 1870.  1903, Sale. Lord Bandon gives notice of his intention to sell his estates in Co Cork – extensive holdings with some 15,000 tenants. 1874-1877 on the staff of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Duke of Abercorn. Chairman Irish Landowners Association 1910 Listed 1913, listed 1922.  1888.   Landlords, Lord Bandon, Duke of Devonshire, Lord Bandon owns 40,941 acres in Co Cork, Duke of Devonshire has 32,550 acres. Two of the three largest landowners in the Co. His 41,000 acres were sold  post 1903 to the Land Commission on what was regarded as fair terms. At the time 15,000 tenants.  It is likely that his Land Agents the Dohertys Bandon Solicitors received a considerable amount of the proceeds as they had advanced multiple mortgages to Lord Bandon over the years. 1877 appointed Lord Lieutenant for Co. Cork, a position held by his father and grandfather. Married Georgina Dorothy Evans Freke d 7th Lord Carbery and wife Harriet Shouldham, the Dunmanway Shouldhams are descended in the female line from a McCarthy heiress who converted. 1883 President Cork Industrial Exhibition and in 1902-3 patron of Cork Industrial Exhibition. 1900 Knight of St. Patrick. Chairman Bandon Board of Guardians and Bandon Town Commissioners. 1919 elected President  of group proposing a War Monument for Cork.  Castlemahon burned by IRA and kidnapped 1921.    Compensation paid by the Irish Government as follows for the house £37,000, furniture £43,300.  Francis Bernard, great-grandfather of the first Earl, was a lawyer and politician while Francis’ younger brother Arthur is the 7th-great grandfather of Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada.^[4][5] James Bernard, father of the first Earl, was a politician.  He died at Princes Gardens London. His funeral service in London was attended by officers of the Cork Artillery.

The family seat, Castle Bernard, built on ruins of former O’Mahony Castle, was one of the great houses burned during the troubles by the IRA  under Sean Hales on 21 June 1921. The home was burned as a counter-reprisal measure against British policy of burning the homes of suspected Irish republicans.

Lord Bandon was kidnapped and held hostage for three weeks being released on 12 July. The IRA threatened to have him executed if the British went ahead with executing IRA prisoners. During his captivity, Bandon reportedly coolly played cards with his captors, who seem to have treated him fairly well. Reportedly, Lord Bandon would give one of his captors, Daniel (Dan) O’Leary (also known an Leabhair, Irish for ‘Book’, based on the fact he was so well read), money each day for Leabhair to travel from the house in Kilcolman townland, to Slatterys pub in Ahiohill to purchase Clonakilty Wrastler (a local beer).

1925 Lord Bandon, Funeral, Obits

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17bscjTbTcMmnNfgeZduolDTwKkOEHLHPDFetpvJW9ak/edit

Constitutional Issue heralded by the Belfast News-Letter. Like many problems cured by time. It may be the kind of issue that will arise from the likely unification of Ireland within the next 50 years.

1891 Doneen, Clonakilty,  Barytes Mines taken  over by Newcastle Firm Cameron, Swan and Smith, New Years Day Entertainment for Staff and family.  £300 paid out in monthly wages.  90 Hands Employed, Carters and Boatmen staff 150,  Deficient Harbour. Caed Mílte Failthe.

1891 Doneen, Clonakilty,  Barytes Mines taken  over by Newcastle Firm Cameron, Swan and Smith, New Years Day Entertainment for Staff and family.  £300 paid out in monthly wages.  90 Hands Employed,Carters and Boatmen staff 150,  Deficient Harbour. Caed Mílte Failthe

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1927 Election County Constituency of West Cork Sub Agents of Jasper Travers Wolfe

Jasper’s mother was a strict Methodist and did not approve of his card playing or whiskey drinking.

His daughter:

1932, 1952 Dorothy Woulfe Barrister, London “The following evening the Independent candidate Jasper Travers Wolfe (former Crown Prosecutor, later independent TD) addressed a meeting in Bantry. His campaigns were managed by his daughter Dorothy. In later campaigns she would speak personally in Durrus and Dunbeacon. She qualified as a barrister in London and became Lady Ungoed-Thomas when her husband, Solicitor General in the post war Attlee Government was knighted. ” “Miss Wolfe BL, 1932, attending funeral of Michael Harrington, Merchant, Skibbereen. 1938, Message of sympathy Funeral of Father John Sheehy, (1892-1938), Curate. Courtmacsherry, of the Prominent Skibbereen Family, his Father County Councillor, One Time TD, Mass Celebrated by 100 Priests, Telegrams, Mass Cards. “

His brother:

1953 Dr. Jackson Wolfe, LL.D Legal Author London Brother of Jasper Wolfe at his funeral, Skibberen 1953.

His apprentice, 2nd woman solicitor to qualify:

1923 Dorothea Browne, later Mrs O’Reilly Mother nee O’Mahony, Ahagouna, Durrus, father Sergent RIC died of Cholera Mitchslstown Workhouse 1900 leaving 8 children “Apprenticed to Jasper Wolfe, Skibbereen, then Crown Prosecutor for West Cork, later independent TD. 1920s, Dorothea Browne, 2nd Woman to Qualify as a Solicitor in Ireland. Her mother was Mrs. Brown, nee O’Mahony, Ahagouna. She went on to found the firm of PF O’Reilly with her husband which is still operational. Her husband later Fine Gael Senator and Taxing Master of the High Court. ” Grandmother Mercy Pier of Huguenot ancestry. “Telegram of sympathy fr her and husbadn P.F.O’Reilly. Funeral 1941, Mrs. Rachel Wolfe nee Wood, Snugboro, Skibbereen, aged 95, mother of Jasper Wolfe, Solicitor buried Aughadown,. Southern Star 25th January 1941

Sub Agent Maurice Gilhooly, Bantry. Soon James Gilhooly, MP for West Cork Jasper was his election agent.

Durrus Herbert Dukelow, Blairs Cove. He spent some years in America activity as a Bantry Rural Councillor. His wife Charlotte Philips her father Robert Philips owned Bandon Arms Hotel in Durrus and a coaching establishment always involved in politics. His daughter Kathleen died recently in her late 90s donated site and a large sum of money to establish a community centre Philips Green.

Baltimore Isaac Shipley fish merchant

Schull: Dr.Edward Shipsey family long tradition of medicine Magistrates heavy involvement in politics.

Skibbereen, W. Wood Wolfe probably a cousin and been a Magistrate.

1952, Enormous Funeral, Skibbereen Closes Down, of Jasper Travers Wolfe, Born 1872, Solicitor, Crown Prosecutor West Cork, Three Times Elected TD, ‘He Had all of Munster as His Client’, First Corkman to be President Incorporated Law Society.

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James Gilhooley (1847-1916), Fenian 1867, Irish Parliamentary Party MP, West Cork, Member ‘Bantry Band’, children at Four Mile Water (Durrus) National School. In later years his election agent was Jasper Woulfe, Solicitor, Crown Prosecutor and later TD, Skibbereen.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/25484

1928.   Busy Bees Barred at Crookhaven But they Buzz Boisterously at Skibbereen Court. Jurisprudence of Bees in Crookhaven, Bees are Animals. Bees when Burned Evaporate.  Music Hath Charms to Soothe The Savage Bee. You Can’t Bring  The IRA Now!’  A Swarm of Bees in May is Worth a Load of Hay, in June A Silver Spoon, July not Worth a Butterfly.

1884, 1917 Jasper Travers Wolfe Solicitor, Crown Solicitor, TD “Norton, Skibbereen, 1st place Law Society Final Exam, Director Skibbereen Eagle member Governing Body, UCC.  subscriber Zenith Marine Disaster, Baltimore, 1895.  1895 Funeral and wreath of Bantry Solicitor  Daniel O’Donovan aged 26.  Native Skibbereen:Returning officer west Cork constituency election agent James Gilhooley MP.  1906 consortium Richard Wheeler Doherty, Solicitor, Bandon, John Walsh, businessman, director Allmans Distillery, Bandon, Hugo Flinn, Fish buyer, Cork, Jasper Travers Woulfe, solicitor, Skibbereen, took over Skibbereen Eagle on death of previous owner. 1909 attending the funeral of Dr. William Jennings, J.P.   1914 RDC election nominated by Parish Priest Fr..Michael O’Callaghan.  1935 funeral of Dr.Edward Shipsey, Schull.  1937 attending Ned Roycroft, funeral. Roycroft had nominated him and supported him as TD,

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/39617

Lennox Robinson (1886-1958) ‘Garden of Sleep’, on the Lost Graveyard of Courtaparteen between Sandycove and The Old Head of Kinsale.

https://www.dib.ie/biography/robinson-lennox-a7727

Robinson, Lennox (1886–1958), playwright and director, was born Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson on 4 October 1886 near Douglas, Co. Cork, youngest of seven children (of whom twins died in infancy) of Andrew Craig Robinson, stockbroker, and Emily Anna Robinson (née Jones). When Lennox was six years old his father took orders in the Church of Ireland and in 1895 moved his family to Kinsale, and thence in 1902 to the rectory in Ballymoney, west Cork. Owing to ill health, Lennox had little formal education, being tutored at home except for a couple of years spent at Bandon Grammar School up to 1904. At home he read widely, dabbled in music, and edited a family magazine, Contributions. On a visit to the Cork opera house (August 1907) Robinson was greatly influenced by the Abbey Theatre company, then on tour with ‘Cathleen Ni Houlihan’ by W. B. Yeats (qv) and ‘The rising of the moon’ by Lady Gregory (qv). Some months later Robinson wrote his first play for the Abbey, where he made his career.

In the 1920s Robinson tried to move beyond the conventional Abbey ‘peasant’ play into more middle-class, urban material. In ‘The big house’ (1926) he dealt with the theme of the Anglo-Irish caught up in the wars that ravaged his native Co. Cork from 1919 to 1923, and returned to the plight of unionists in southern Ireland in ‘Killycreggs in twilight’ (1937). Regrettably, neither of these plays was as popular as the lighter comedies such as ‘The whiteheaded boy’, ‘The far-off hills’ (1918), and ‘Drama at Inish’ (1933).

Rushes:

Skellig Lists, Bandon 1843, Ballydehob 1912, Celebration of Skellig Night, South Mall, Cork 1845.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/10434

George Boyle White (1802-1876), born Bantry, West Cork, East India Company Navy man, Surveyor, Australia 1830s Journals of Expedition.

https://wordpress.com/post/durrushistory.com/4946

John Westropp Carey, born Kinsale 1778 died Glenlough outside Bantry 1862. Married Margaret McCarthy, Daughter of Daniel McCarthy former Parish Priest of Durrus and Sarah Blair of Blairs Cove, Durrus. MIlitary service of him and his 6 Brothers

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BnjAwZ6eFk_0sTMsjxYBo3YFQLNqJ4J2utWIftpJXqs/edit

Father/Reverend Daniel McCarthy marriage to Sarah Blair,  Blair genealogy, Petition 1820 Dublin Castle, 19th May 2022

Rev Dan McCarthy (Apostatised and married his ward Ms.Sarah Blair) P.P. 1790. He was one of the McCarthy Muclaghs and was known as ’An tAthair Tadgh Na Muclagh’.  His father used to dispute the claim of the McCarthys of Carrignavar the right to the Chieftainship of the McCarthys.  He was influenced by the radical teachings of Voltaire and Rosseau as a student in France.’ He was a classical scholar and acted as interpreter in Bantry between General Dalrymple and the French Officer Prosseau in 1796.  His daughter married John Westropp Carey who lived in Glenlough Cottage on the Northside. 

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From a descendant:]]

So far as Daniel McCarthy is concerned, he is my 4 x Gt Grandfather . My line from Daniel goes to Robert McCarthy, his son, 1803—1843. Robert was a Printer, and in the 1841 census he was 38 years old and living in Teiers (Friar’s Walk) Walk, St Nicholas Parish, City of Cork. All the children, of school age, were at St Nicholas School.   A sister of Robert, was Margaret McCarthy, 1802-1839, who in 1822 married John Westropp Carey, 1778-1862. A brother of Robert McCarthy was the Rt Reverend Welbore McCarthy, D.D.,  He was, I think twice, the Bishop of Calcutta’s Commissary, i.e. ‘temporary deputy’ and latterly Archdeacon and Archbishop of Grantham. Robert McCarthy had married in 1810, Mary Jane Agar, daughter of the Reverend Charles Welbore Agar, Rector of Inniscarra. Robert and Mary had a number of children. My 2 x Gt Grandfather being the Reverend John Agar McCarthy, 1832-1890, who was a Church Missionary Society missionary in India, and married his wife, Mary Jane Carey, 1831-1915, daughter of Michael Carey of Cork, in Calcutta in 1859. Michael Carey was one of seven Carey brothers, who all served in the Army and Navy at the time of the Peninsular War.  Michael Carey was a Lieutenant in the 83rd Regiment. He was wounded at Talavera, served through the whole Peninsular Campaign under the Duke of Wellington, and received a Medal with eight clasps for his services.  A brother of Michael Carey, Randall Carey was the youngest Midshipman on board the ship that Napoleon was taken prisoner in. As such, he had to receive Napoleon’s sword.  Reverend John Agar McCarthy and his wife, Mary Jane (nee Carey) had seven children, the eldest of which, is my Gt Grandmother, Lizzie Martin McCarthy, who was born in Pershar, on the Indian Afghanistan border in 1860. In the 1871 Census, Reverend John Agar McCarthy was Vicar Designate of St Saviours, Battersea, London. He continued as a Vicar in England until his death in 1890 at Swaffham, Norfolk. His daughter, Lizzie Martin McCarthy married Robert Kohloff Clark, son of the Reverend William Clark, CMS Missionary in India and Ceylon. 

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Somewhere in the Paddy O’Keeffe papers (Cork archives) there is a reference to him either having a pack of hounds of borrowing those of the O’Donovans I thnk around Newtown, Bantry.,

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Father William Holland, Ardfield, Clonakilty, (1876-1950). 1949 History of West Cork. Included genealogies of Barrys, De Courceys, McCarthys, O’Crowleys, O’Driscolls, O’Heas, O’Hurleys, O’Mahonys, O’Sullivans. 1950 Funeral and Background.

Father William Holland, SMA, 1911-1952 was a relative.

His extended family included the O’Heas and Maddesn of Ardfield. Included was the famous Master Madden, after he finished this National School at Ardfield he ran a cramming school to prepare I think boys only for English Civil Service e Exams. Included among his pupils were future revolutionaries Sam Maguire and his brother and Michael Collins.

At the back of the book is a series of notations by John T.Collins from Kilmeen, Clonakilty. He was part of a loose group including Paddy O’Keeffe, Bantry, Bernard O’Regan, Aughadown, Emmet O’Donovan, Clonakilty. He assisted Basil O’Connell in compiling ‘The O’Connell Tracts’. In the 1950s he was given access to a 18th century collection of Cork Newspaper compiled by the Kearneys of Garrettstown House. By the 1950s Mr. Cussen, Solicitor, Newcastle West had the collection. John T. Collins published widely in the Cork Historical adn Archaeological JOurnal available online great research highly accurate.

History of West Cork:

Pretty much a a stunning achievement before the Internet and Google and the he spent long periods serving in Northern Nigeria.

Funeral and background:

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Funeral and background:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mBDukIFQhkhJiRA5xOIfNPtIDgWzoz_-FHNDjPgPSoc/edit

1765, Accounts of Franciscan Community, Broad Lane, Cork, Diet, Rents, Taxes.

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Meat

23 lb beef

Shoulder of mutton 13 lb.

Shoulder of mutton 11 lb.

Mutton a leg weight

Beef 20 lb.

Leg of mutton 10.5 lb.

Leg of mutton

Beef

Pork one side for the house

Hind muton 6 lb

Shoulder of mutton 10 lb.

Quarter of Mutton

Fish

Ling 8.5 lb.

Cod for Friday

Ling 19 lb.

Cod 2 fresh

Salmon

Dried Ling 10 lb

Ling 7.75 lb

Entire Smoked Salmon

Salmon another cut

Ale 2 quarts

Mackerel

Vegetables

Potatoes 25 weights

Turnips

Greens

Leeks and celery

Spinach

Butter

Butter cask half hundred weight

Other butter

Butter 13lb

Butter for basting mutton

Butter

Butter quarter

Sundry Consumables

Salt half pack

Salt

Sand for altar

Coarse sand for altar and stairs

Sand for stairs

Sand for Parlour

Sand free for washerwoman stone

Straw

Candles 2 lb

Mustard 5 pints

Vinegar 1 pint

Incense

ZFlesh eating oil

Alcohol

Ale 2 days

Punch 1 snag

Dram

Ale one quart

Brandy one pint

Porter

Claret

Punch

Punch snag

Claret

Ale 2 quarts

Beer 1

Ale 6 quarts

Wine 1 gallon

Brandy half pint

Ale 5 quarts

Ale 5 quarts

Brandy noggin after dinner

Ale one quart

Ale 5 quarts

Ale 6 quarts

Ale for community 5 quarts

Ale for community 5 quarts

Ale for community 4 quarts

Ale for community 5 quarts

Ale for strangers

Rum quart, sugar and oranges

Brandy half pint

Wine gallon for the altar

Metheglin 1  pint

Punch

Beer and ale for the family, 5 quarts\

Porter

Ale 2 days for Biddy

Coal

Coal and porterage in total 4 loads

Water

Water for the chaapel

Water for washing the parlour

Water for the kitchen

The waterman

For water

Taxes, Rents

Parish rates

Minister’s Money

Parish rates

Sheriff Butler, half years rent

Rent to William Worrell

Hearth money

Parish Rates

Ministers Money

Church rates and clark’s gallery