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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[AUGUST, 1921
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
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.