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Correspondence
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The Editor,
Law Society Gazette,
Blackhall Place,
Dublin 7.
June 1985
Dear Editor,
I represent the third generation of our firm and after
reading the letter published in your March
Gazette
written by Mr. Harry C. P. Barry of the Cashel firm of
Charles M. Barry & Son I started writing my own letter
with a little boast that we beat Mr. Barry's firm of three
generations by approximately one year, because some
years back I had the good fortune to find the very first
letter book of our firm written in the handwriting of my
late grandfather, Michael J. O'Connor, and the first copy
letter, dated the 28th November 1888, was his application
to the secretary of the Law Society to be put on the Roll of
Solicitors, and his second copy letter was an application
to the Postmaster of Wexford town to be given a formal
postal address for the firm.
I was about to dispatch this letter when I noted that Mr.
Joseph Grace of Tralee had written a letter which has
appeared in your May
Gazette,
and which knocks us all
into a tin hat.
However, I still claim that we are entitled to be
considered as contenders when I add to our own firm the
Clonmel firm of O'Brien & Binchy the principal of which
is Don Binchy, this year's junior Vice President together
with the firm of Messrs. Thomas Dillon-Leetch &
Company, Ballyhaunis, because the founders of all these
firms were respectively my grandfather, Michael J.
O'Connor, Don Binchy's grandfather, James Binchy, my
"grandfather in law" Thomas Dillon Leetch, were not
only great friends but they were all admitted to practice as
solicitors in the same year and all established their firms in
1888.
But what makes us all a bit unique is the interlinking by
marriage. Rosemary Binchy, Don's sister, is married to
Thomas Callan, Solicitor of Boyle, whose sister Sylvia
married me when we were both barristers just over
twenty-five years ago, whereupon I got disbarred to join
the family firm here in Wexford.
I would add an item of further interest that Sylvia and
Tom's grandfather, Thomas Dillon Leetch, was one of
the founders of the Solicitors Apprentices Debating
Society of Ireland in 1884.
In just three years time in 1988, when all these legal
firms of the O'Connors, the Binchys, the Dillon-Leetchs
and the Callans are celebrating their centenary, we intend
having a great 'bash' at Blackhall Place and I now extend
a cordial invitation to the families of the Barrys and the
Graces, all to join in — everybody going 'dutch'!!
Are there any other firms in Ireland of three or more
generations who would like to join in?
Yours sincerely,
James J. O'Connor, Solicitor,
M.J. O'Connor & Co.,
2, Lr. George's Street,
Wexford.
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