Life
Author of Sketches of the Irish Bar with Essays Literary and Political,
2 vols. (London: Colburn 1855) [ also Life of Rt. Hon. John Philpot Curran, late Master of the Rolls of Ireland, 2 vols. (1819).
Sketches of the Irish Bar (1855), Vol. I contains chapters on Lord Chief Baron Stephen Woulfe; William Conyngham Plunkett; [Daniel] O’Connell, Thomas Wallace, et al. and num. anecdotes of the the Southern Circuit [available online].
Quotations
Life of John Philpot Curran: ‘For centuries Ireland had been in a state of miserable bondage. Her history is but the disgusting catalogue of her sufferings, exciting to unprofitable retaliation, from which she regularly sank, subdued but untranquillized, into a condition of more embittered wretchedness, with the penalties of rebellion superadded to the calamities of oppression. From the period of her annexation to England in the twelfth century, down to the close of the seventeenth, she had thus continued, barbarous and restless; too feeble and disunited to succeed, too strong, and proud, and irritated, to despair; alternating in dreary succession between wild exertions of delirious strength and the troubled sleep of exhausted fury.’ (2nd edn. 1822. pp.138-39; quoted in Joep Leerssen, Remembrance and Imagination [... &c.] Cork UP/Field Day 1996, p.86.)
References
Belfast Central Public Library holds Sketches of the Irish Bar with Essays Literary and Political, 2 vols. (London: Colburn 1855). MORRIS holds Life of Rt. Hon. John Philpot
Curran, late Master of the Rolls of Ireland, 2 vols. (1819).
Library of Herbert Bell, Belfast holds Sketches, &c. [Vol 1 of 2].
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