The Reminiscences of Ignatius O'Brien, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1913-18: A Life in Cork, Dublin and Westminster - Rilegato

 
9781846828713: The Reminiscences of Ignatius O'Brien, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1913-18: A Life in Cork, Dublin and Westminster
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ISBN 10: 1846828716 ISBN 13: 9781846828713
Casa editrice: Four Courts Pr Ltd, 2021

Sinossi

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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Informazioni sull?autore

Daire Hogan is a solicitor and former president of the Irish Legal History Society. Patrick Maume is a researcher with the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Irish biography, who has published extensively on nineteenth-and twentieth-century Irish history.

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Editore
Four Courts Pr Ltd
Data di pubblicazione
2021
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1846828716
ISBN 13 
9781846828713
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
319
Redattore
Hogan Daire, Maume Patrick
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