• The Recorder of Dublin was a judicial office holder in pre-Independence Ireland. The Recorder was the chief magistrate for Dublin, and heard a wide range...
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  • A recorder is a judicial officer in England and Wales and some other common law jurisdictions. In the courts of England and Wales, the term recorder currently...
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  • Thomas O'Shaughnessy (category Recorders of Dublin)
    Judge of the High Court from 1924 to 1925. He was the last Recorder of Dublin in Ireland. O'Shaughnessy was born on 22 December 1850 in Dublin, as the...
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  • 1540-1614), Recorder of Dublin Henry Burnell, grandson of the previous (died c.1656), playwright and politician Eleanor Burnell (fl.1640), daughter of Henry...
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  • Jonas Greene (category Recorders of Dublin)
    the office of Recorder of Dublin. He was born in Dublin, the eldest son of Richard Greene. He was called to the Bar, although few details of his legal...
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  • The office was very similar to that of the recorder of Dublin, except that the recorder of Cork, unlike his Dublin counterpart, did not have the power...
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  • John Forster (Chief Justice) (category Recorders of Dublin)
    tenure as Recorder of Dublin saw a major conflict between the aldermen of Dublin and the Privy Council; Forster was entirely on the side of the aldermen...
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  • again on payment of a small fee. Unlike some recorders, notably the recorder of Dublin, he invariably had a Deputy. The recorder was always a qualified...
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    John Bysse (category Recorders of Dublin)
    1634 and became Recorder of Dublin in the same year. He was re-elected to the Commons in 1640. At the outbreak of Irish Rebellion of 1641 John Bysse,...
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  • judicial offices, including that of Recorder of Dublin 1687-9. He was born in County Meath, a member of the Crickstown branch of the prominent Barnewall family...
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  • Frederick Falkiner (judge) (category Recorders of Dublin)
    as Law Adviser to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1875. The following year he was appointed Recorder of Dublin, a judicial position he held for almost...
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    of King Henry VIII of England and his newly established Kingdom of Ireland. Initially, the society was housed in a disused Dominican friary in Dublin...
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    O'Shaughnessy (category Surnames of Irish origin)
    (1850–1933), Recorder of Dublin Sir Roger O'Shaughnessy of Kinelea (died 1569) William O'Shaughnessy (1673–1744), Major-General and Chief of the Name William...
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    Frederick Shaw — Recorder of Dublin 1830–76 and Dundalk; built Kimmage Manor. Sir Robert Shaw — Tory MP for Dublin City 1830–1831 and 1832; member of the Privy...
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  • Nathaniel Catelyn (category Recorders of Dublin)
    He was Speaker of the Irish House of Commons in the Irish Parliament of 1634–5, Recorder of Dublin and the first holder of the office of Second Serjeant...
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  • Edward Loftus (category Recorders of Dublin)
    by "principal officer" is unclear). He held office very briefly as Recorder of Dublin. He was noted for his legal scholarship, and wrote a manual listing...
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  • laws of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Britain, England, and the Irish Parliament. For example, the killing of cattle in Dublin is still...
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  • Patrick Fitzgerald (Irish judge) (category Recorders of Dublin)
    Irish judge who held the office of Recorder of Dublin. Elrington Ball states that he belonged to a junior branch of the leading Anglo-Irish FitzGerald...
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  • William Davys (category Recorders of Dublin)
    and judge who held the offices of Recorder of Dublin, Prime Serjeant and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. He was suspected of Roman Catholic sympathies and...
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  • applied for the post of recorder of Dublin in 1821 and again in 1828, but was appointed King's Counsel. A high Tory and member of the Orange Order, his...
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  • Thomas Coote (Irish politician) (category Recorders of Dublin)
    judge, who sat in the Irish House of Commons, and held office as Recorder of Dublin and as a judge of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland). Although he...
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  • Denis George (category Recorders of Dublin)
    an Irish barrister and judge who held office as Recorder of Dublin, and then as Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland). He enjoyed a high reputation...
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  • The Recorder of Belfast is one of the two senior County Court judges of Northern Ireland known as Recorders, the other being the Recorder of Derry. The...
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  • Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet (category Recorders of Dublin)
    leading position as a lawyer in Dublin. About 1603 he was appointed Recorder of Dublin, but, being a staunch Catholic, which was a bar to public office,...
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  • July 1621. In 1628 he served as a barrister, and he was appointed Recorder of Dublin. Other appointments included Prime Sergeant, 6 October 1629. He was...
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  • Nehemiah Donnellan (1649–1705) (category Recorders of Dublin)
    and represented the borough of Galway in the Irish House of Commons from 1692 to 1693. In 1693 he was made Recorder of Dublin. He was raised to the High...
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    criminal matters before the Dublin Metropolitan District Court and Dublin Circuit Court. The complex also houses the regular sittings of the Central Criminal...
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    Baronet - 11 Dominick Street William Walker (Recorder of Dublin) - 11 Dominick Street Edward FitzGerald, 7th Duke of Leinster - inherited 13 Lower Dominick...
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  • Samuel Bradstreet (category Recorders of Dublin)
    College Dublin and was then called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1758, becoming King's Counsel in 1767 In 1766, he became Recorder of Dublin. Bradstreet...
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  • Henry Burnell (category Recorders of Dublin)
    briefly as Recorder of Dublin and as a justice of the Court of King's Bench. Though he was willing to accept Crown office, he spent much of his career...
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