bodkin judge (4 resultados)

Soft Covers. Condición: Good. Pp. 212. Covers grubby, worn and damp stained towards spine of back cover. Else a good copy internally and intact.

Single Sheet Engraving. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. AN ORIGINAL ANTIQUE ENGRAVING. MOUNTED AND READY TO FRAME. VERY GOOD CONDITION . SHOWS A PORTRAIT OF SIR WILLIAM BODKIN, JUDGE ORIGINATING FROM GALWAY, AN ORIGINAL ANTIQUE ENGRAVED PORTRAIT, PRINTED IN 1874 , AN ORIGINAL ANTIQUE ENGRAVED PORTRAIT, PRINTED IN 1874AN ORIGINAL ANTIQUE ENGRAVED PORTRAIT, PRINTED IN 1874.

4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Fair, on aged high-acidity paper. Drophead title, with the second part reading in its entirety: 'County Court Judge Bodkin, K.C., at the conclusion of the Ennis (County Clare) Quarter Sessions on February 5, 1921, made a grave statement as to the violence committed by the forces of the Crown in Ireland, in the following words: -'. The article reprints a report by Bodkin to the Rt Hon. Sir Hamar Greenwood, Chief Secretary for Ireland, under the following headings: 'Looting at Lahinch', 'Men Shot at Ennistymon', 'Murder at Miltown-Malbay', 'Directed to Call for Body', 'Complaint to Colonel of Auxiliaries', 'Application Dismissed', 'Juristiction not "Ousted"', 'People Treated with Great Violence', 'No Charges Against Victims' and 'Burden Too Heavy for Ratepayers'. The report ends: 'In conclusion, I venture to repeat an opinion expressed at a previous sessions three months ago, that law and order cannot be restored or maintained by what I felt constrained to describe as a competition in crime.' One copy on COPAC etc (LSE).

Condición: V.G. Bodkin's Famous Judgement - Second Report of Judge Bodkin (Fourteen years County Court Judge for the County of Clare). p.p. 8. White printed wrps.Judge Bodkin followed up his Considered Judgement, read in open court at Ennis on the 5th February 1921, by the above at Ennis Court, later that year with a further damning report on the criminal activities of the "Tans", the scum of the British Army, in Clare during 1921. He describes, shootings of a young boy near Cloonaha, attack on a young lady at Kilmihill, house burnings in Lahinch, Sixmilebridge,Ennistymon and bombing in other Clare villages. Judge Bodkin finished his judgement and his awards to injured parties stating "criminal injuries in Clare now amounts to close on half a million sterling".