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AuGtrsx, 1921] The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
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I have no doubt that when you have had
an opportunity of examining Mr. Sheppard's
work you will all agree that he has not only
justified our selection and confidence but has
achieved a superb result entitling him to the
highest praise and reflecting the highest credit
on the artistic capabilities of Dublin City.
We have had photos of the Memorial
prepared, which will be presented to all
relatives who may apply to our Secretary,
Mr. Wakely, for them.
After careful consideration the Council
decided that a Memorial of this kind, being
essentially a
family affair, subscriptions
should be limited strictly to our own ranks,
and though we might have invited some
exalted outside personage to preside at this
ceremony, it was felt that it would be more
dignified,
seemly and agreeable
to
the
profession that it should be confined to our
own selves as a purely domestic function in
the privacy of our own official premises, and
it is under these circumstances that the
responsibility has devolved upon me, and I
am keenly sensible of the honour.
During the War 155 Irish Solicitors and 83
Apprentices joined the military forces; of
these we honour to-day the memory of 20
Solicitors and 18 Apprentices who ventured
all and gave
their
lives
in
the Great
Adventure, and I will ask you all now to
stand up
in
their honour and come
to
attention while I read out their names :—
SOLICITORS.
FRANCIS AHERN.
THOMAS JOYCE ATKINSON.
Louis BARRON.
JAMES S. BOAL.
EDWARD ELLARD BRADY.
WILLIAM PUREFOY BRIDGE.
JOHN VALENTINE DUNN.
HERBERT S. FINDLATER.
BRENDAN JOSEPH FOTTRELL.
ROBERT CLIFFORD ORR.
JOHN GEOFFREY PERSSE.
WILLIAM REEVES RICHARDS.
W. HOWARD SANDERSON.
RICHARD TALBOT SCALLAN.
ALFRED GEORGE F. SIMMS.
WILLIAM ALAN SMILES.
ROBERT STANTON.
RICHARD COOKE WALLACE.
SAMUEL CECIL WEBB.
WILLIAM WHALEY.
APPRENTICES TO SOLICITORS.
HUGH MONTGOMERY BAILLIE.
VINCENT CONNELL BYRNE.
ARTHUR NICKSON CALLAGHAN.
ARTHUR C. CROOKSHANK.
JAMES JOHN DAVIDSON.
FREDERICK E. B. FALKINER.
MICHAEL J. FITZGIBBON.
PHILIP JAMES FURLONG.
IVAN HAROLD GARVEY.
J. KENNETH MACGREGOR GREER.
THOMAS 0. J. KAVANAGH.
HENRY IRWIN MAHAFFY.
DANIEL O'RORKE.
ROBERT KELLY POLLIN.
MARCUS RALPH RUSSELL.
JOHN HARTLEY SCHUTE.
SAMUEL LEE TOLERTON.
ALEXANDER M. TURNBULL.
The Memorial which we are about to
unveil records in a tangible and lasting form,
and
is an endeavour
to articulate and
perpetuate
those
feelings of admiration,
gratitude and pride with which we, as a
profession, cherish the memory and loss of
those young lives who, on our behalf, went
out from amongst us, lives which, though
dedicated to civil life and peaceful pursuits,
with no previous military training and no
premonition of what was before them, when
the call came proved that our ranks con
tained brave men of heroic instincts and
public spirit, of high resolve and dauntless
courage, who realised in its highest and most
supremely unselfish sense the full significance
of what is involved in the word Duty—
which in their case prematurely, as in our
own sooner or later, " leads but to the
grave."
In
the
interval
that has
elapsed
a
multiplicity of thrilling and distressing events
have pressed upon us as a civil population,
struggling to emerge and emancipate our
selves from the dreadful aftermath of the
most devastating and brutal war in history.
If we can but adjust the perspective of
our minds over this crowded interval back
to those dreadful days, we will recollect how
we were confronted by a danger unpre
cedented in our history or experience, a
danger so threatening, so overwhelming to
our very existence and to all we held most
dear and
sacred,
that
it
swept
away