
Simeon Burke BL, brother of one Enoch Burke, picketed the Law Library of Ireland because no one would allow him to be their pupil, or ‘devil’ as they are affectionately known.

Date: November 14, 2024 - Wigs on the Green

Simeon Burke BL, brother of one Enoch Burke, picketed the Law Library of Ireland because no one would allow him to be their pupil, or ‘devil’ as they are affectionately known.
As the world around us descends not-so-slowly into a veritable state of chassis, it must have been a source of great comfort to the lords and ladies of the legal obsession to go to work each day and bask in the warm glow of friendship and collegiality. As the Middle East and the US tear… Read more »
To access this content, you must be a Phoenix subscriber.
Get access to The Phoenix online for as low as €1.50 per week. Read all the regular online only Phoenix stories AND receive the packed digital edition every fortnight (25 per year). Great value for so many inside stories!
Popular Stories
HARDLY HAD the ink dried on Goldhawk’s report of a default on ...
ON THE basis that there is no such thing as bad publicity ...

MICK SMURFIT’S DISTINGUISED AWARD
IN OCTOBER 2024 Tom Lyons of The Currency made the pilgrimage to ...
THE name of the tiny Caribbean island of Canouan popped up in ...
THERE WAS plenty of coverage this month of the centenary of the ...
NO LESS than eight months after the closing date for expressions of ...
IT IS unclear if there are any real winners from last week’s ...
PATRICK MULLINS recently returned to Fakenham, the scene of his two January ...
CLASSIC WINNING trainer Adrian Keatley narrowly failed in his recent attempt to ...
GOLDHAWK’S FAVOURITE south Co Dublin investment-guru-turned-racehorse-trainer, Barry Connell, didn’t quite have the ...