Life
Son of Maurice Healy (1859-1923), who was brother of Tim Healy; lawyer author of Old Munster Circuit: A Book of Memories and Traditions [2nd imp.] (London: Michael Joseph 1929), 171pp.; Do., [3rd edn.] (Dublin: Nolan 1948); 287pp.
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References
Frank O’Connor, Book of Ireland (1979), quotes from Old Munster Circuit, passages on Irish Irish vagaries before the Bar (pp.192, 249, 272, 273.) See also Frank O’Connor, The Backward Look (1967), where he is called ‘an old ruffian like Sir Jonah Barrington ... a lawyer [whose] Personal Sketches is the forerunner of many similar books, of which the best is Maurice Healy’s Old Munster Circuit. (p.127.)
Belfast Public Library holds Old Munster Circuit (1948).
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