Crime and Justice

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Gerald Griffin, born in Limerick in 1803, became one of Ireland’s most admired nineteenth-century novelists, poets and dramatists. Raised in a prosperous brewing family, he later moved to London, where he pursued journalism and literature. His best-known novel, The Collegians, drew upon the notorious murder of Ellen Hanley, remembered as the Colleen Bawn. In 1838, Griffin abandoned literary life, destroyed many unpublished manuscripts and joined the Christian Brothers in Cork. He died of typhus in 1840, aged thirty-six. Limerick proudly continues to honour him through prominent street names, schools, literary awards and the Gerald Griffins GAA club in west Limerick.

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Gerald Griffin, born in Limerick in 1803, became one of Ireland’s most admired nineteenth-century novelists, poets and dramatists. Raised in a prosperous brewing family, he later moved to London, where he pursued journalism and literature. His best-known novel, The Collegians, drew upon the notorious murder of Ellen Hanley, remembered as the Colleen Bawn. In 1838, Griffin abandoned literary life, destroyed many unpublished manuscripts and joined the Christian Brothers in Cork. He died of typhus in 1840, aged thirty-six. Limerick proudly continues to honour him through prominent street names, schools, literary awards and the Gerald Griffins GAA club in west Limerick.

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Gerald Griffin, born in Limerick in 1803, became one of Ireland’s most admired nineteenth-century novelists, poets and dramatists. Raised in a prosperous brewing family, he later moved to London, where he pursued journalism and literature. His best-known novel, The Collegians, drew upon the notorious murder of Ellen Hanley, remembered as the Colleen Bawn. In 1838, Griffin abandoned literary life, destroyed many unpublished manuscripts and joined the Christian Brothers in Cork. He died of typhus in 1840, aged thirty-six. Limerick proudly continues to honour him through prominent street names, schools, literary awards and the Gerald Griffins GAA club in west Limerick.

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Castle Time

Image · 16 July 2026

Castlegarde Castle, near Cappamore in County Limerick, is regarded as Ireland’s oldest continuously inhabited castle. Established by the O’Brien family around 1190, its five-storey medieval tower rises from a limestone outcrop, strengthening its defensive position. Original features include an internal well and a murder hole above the entrance passage. In 1820, Waller O’Grady commissioned architects James and George Pain to add a castellated Gothic extension, harmonised with the ancient keep. A carved head of Brian Boru overlooks the entrance, while three unusual stone figures representing Bacchus, Pallas Athene and Aphrodite survive within the gatehouse. Today, it remains a private residence.

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Castle Time

Image · 16 July 2026

Castlegarde Castle, near Cappamore in County Limerick, is regarded as Ireland’s oldest continuously inhabited castle. Established by the O’Brien family around 1190, its five-storey medieval tower rises from a limestone outcrop, strengthening its defensive position. Original features include an internal well and a murder hole above the entrance passage. In 1820, Waller O’Grady commissioned architects James and George Pain to add a castellated Gothic extension, harmonised with the ancient keep. A carved head of Brian Boru overlooks the entrance, while three unusual stone figures representing Bacchus, Pallas Athene and Aphrodite survive within the gatehouse. Today, it remains a private residence.

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Mortgage Fetter

Article · By Amergin · 26 June 2026

A mortgage dispute involving County Limerick auctioneer John Browne and Patrick Ryan, a farmer of Ryaninch in County Tipperary, reached the Irish courts in 1900 after Browne sought £62 10s in commission from the sale of Ryan’s property. What appeared to be an ordinary contractual claim raised a larger question about the limits placed upon mortgage lenders. Browne relied upon a separate agreement connected with a £200 loan, but Ryan argued that its terms improperly burdened his right to redeem the mortgaged land and recover complete control once the debt had been repaid.

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Gerald Griffin, born in Limerick in 1803, became one of Ireland’s most admired nineteenth-century novelists, poets and dramatists. Raised in a prosperous brewing family, he later moved to London, where he pursued journalism and literature. His best-known novel, The Collegians, drew upon the notorious murder of Ellen Hanley, remembered as the Colleen Bawn. In 1838, Griffin abandoned literary life, destroyed many unpublished manuscripts and joined the Christian Brothers in Cork. He died of typhus in 1840, aged thirty-six. Limerick proudly continues to honour him through prominent street names, schools, literary awards and the Gerald Griffins GAA club in west Limerick.

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Tenant Payments

Article · By Amergin · 25 June 2026

Judge Richard Adams delivered an important ruling during the Limerick Quarter Sessions concerning the fixing of fair rents on Irish agricultural holdings. He declared that money already paid by a tenant to obtain possession of a farm should be taken into account when the judicial rent was assessed. Such payments commonly represented the purchase of the outgoing tenant’s interest, goodwill or tenant-right rather than money paid directly to the landlord. Adams’s statement recognised that an incoming occupier might have invested a substantial sum before paying a single year’s rent and that this financial burden formed part of the true circumstances of the tenancy.

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Shanagolden Ages

Image · 17 July 2026

Shanagolden, whose Irish name Seanghualainn means “old shoulder,” possesses a history stretching from early medieval warfare to plantation settlement and modern political struggle. Nearby lands witnessed Mahon’s victory over Norse forces in 968, while Shanid Castle later became a major FitzGerald stronghold. St Katherine’s Abbey reflects the district’s medieval religious heritage. Following the Desmond conflicts, the village was reshaped as an Elizabethan plantation settlement, leaving its broad street, square and central green. During the nineteenth century, policing, trade, farming and creamery production shaped local life. Shanagolden also played a remembered role during Ireland’s War of Independence in the twentieth century.

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Police Cabin

Image · 12 July 2026

Around 1880, the interior of a police cabin at Gurranmore, near Pallas in County Limerick, reveals the modest conditions in which rural constables lived and worked. The small room is sparsely furnished, with simple wooden fittings, basic household utensils and few comforts. Uniformed officers occupy the cramped space, suggesting that the cabin served as both workplace and living quarters. Published in The Graphic in 1880, the image offers a rare glimpse of everyday policing in nineteenth-century Ireland. It preserves not only the appearance of the station, but also the disciplined, isolated life experienced by men posted in rural communities nearby.

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