The Gazette 1921-25

[AUGUST, 1921

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

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representative gathering attended, and were received in the Council Chamber, and they subsequently assembled in the Grand Hall of the Society, Solicitors' Buildings. The Secretary read apologies from relatives and subscribers who were unavoidably prevented from accepting the invitation of the President and Council. The President addressed those present on the subject of their assembling together, and at the close of his address he went, with those present, to the staircase leading to the Hall, where he performed the unveiling ceremony. The President, addressing those present in the Hall, said :— I am privileged as your President to perform a public duty here to-day, a very solemn one, which I assure you I approach with a deep sense, not only of its importance, but of very real pride in which you are all privileged to share ; and I invite your kind indulgence and attention. In addressing you on this occasion, momentous in our family traditions, let me, in the first instance, extend a sympathetic greeting to those relations of our fallen brethren who are able to be amongst us to-day as well as to those who, though present in spirit, are prevented by cir cumstances from coming. Not the least satisfaction to us on this occasion lies in the reflection that in setting up this Memorial we may in some measure gratify them, too,.in paying our testimony to deeds and memories of those who were our professional brethren, whose sacrifice and example we cherish with them in a sense of a common loss. We hope our War Memorial in its design, structure and placement may commend itself to their approval and that of all concerned in the movement. A Special Committee of past Presidents was appointed to carry it out, and they are responsible for details to which they' have devoted much time and sympathetic concern. They engaged the services of our well-known fellow-citizen, Mr. Oliver Sheppard, R.H.A., who is responsible for the design, which takes the form of a bronze tablet on stone, the figure of " Peace " in the centre, and the names of those, to whose perpetual honour it is erected, on each side.

MR. DAVID J. HI'GGINS, Solicitor, died upon the 29th July, 1921, at his residence, 12 Anne . Street, Clonmel. Mr. Higgins served his apprenticeship with the ; late: Mr.' Theodore Cronhelm, Dublin; was admitted in Easter, 1882, and practised at Clonmel. New Members. The following have joined the Society :— T. Desmond McLoughlin, 18 College Green, Dublin. Valentine E. Kirwan, 13 Suffolk Street, Dublin. Jeremiah J. Creed, Macroom, Co. Cork. War Memorial. The Memorial, erected in the Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, to the memory of- the twenty Irish Solicitors and eighteen Apprentices to Solicitors who laid down their lives in the war, was unveiled by the President of the Incorporated Law Society on 8th July. The Memorial, designed by Mr. Oliver Sheppard, R.H.A., and erected by Messrs. Sharp and Emery, is in bronze, and consists of a figure symbolical of Peace. It is sur mounted by the arms of the Society, with the names of those to whose memory it is erected on panels to the right and left of the figure, and a panel at foot with thejollowing inscription :— This Tablet is erected to the memory of the Irish Solicitors and Apprentices to Irish Solicitors who gave their lives for their . King and Country in the great var, 1914-1918. " Who ventured life and love and youth For the great prize of death in battle." ' In response to the invitation of the President and Council of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland issued to relatives of those to whom the Memorial is erected, and to the members of the profession who subscribed towards the fund necessary to defray the cost of the Memorial, a large and