britishgovernmentinireland

“Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, KP, GCVO, FRS (10 November 1847 – 7 October 1927) was an Anglo-Irish businessman and philanthropist. A member of the prominent Guinness family, he was the head of the family's eponymous brewing business, making him the richest man in Ireland”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Guinness,_1st_Earl_of_Iveagh

Codpiece vital for Fancy Balls.

Suck Diesel Had to look up KP, and GCVO. For those of us equally challenged, they were Knight of the Order of St. Patrick, and a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order.

beachcomber australia Buachaill dána! 😀

An article in the Manchester Courier - Wednesday 15 March 1876 began:

FANCY DRESS BALL AT DUBLIN CASTLE.
The fancy dress ball which took place on Saturday night Dublin Castle, was the first held at the Viceregal Court of Dublin. A children's fancy ball was given by Lord Mulgrave, but it bore no semblance to this splendid pageant. Every one who attended was in fancy dress, with the exception of the Lord Mayor, the judges, and the officers of the garrison. No Court, naval or civil uniform of this century, was allowed.

No mention specifically of these two, but other Jamesons and Guinnesses are namechecked.

In response to a DMP strike?

From a police circular

“Union is Strength The men of this station are hereby invited to attend a monster meeting to be held in the Ball Alley Street (C Division) on Thursday 31st. Chair to be taken at 5 p.m. sharp. It is requested that all night men and all others off duty will attend this meeting for the purpose of taking into consideration the signing of the memorial and also for protesting against the threatening language used by Chief Superintendent Corr on last Saturday evening.
We will take this opportunity of demonstrating (for Captain Talbot's information and guidance) that we are not reduced constables but constables whose characters are unimpeachable.
Issued by authority of C Division'
29/8/1882”

www.jstor.org/stable/23198927

Suck Diesel Interesting, I wonder did the strike go ahead?

National Library of Ireland on The Commons We will see what the day will reveal

Possibly something to do with this "Police Strike" ?? - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/111315324?searchTerm=D...

beachcomber australia 100%

a quick Google flags up a series of NLI held docs from the 1880s where he seems to have acted as a Government solicitor ?

If the same man he was a resident magistrate.. RM..who took part in the Vandeleur evictions in 1888. Not well liked in Moyasta and beyond.

If that's our legal chap, it seems like that more than his waistcoat was stuffed (allegedly)
Daily Nation 1898

O f f i c i a l s f r o m t h e
V a n d e l e u r E v i c t i o n s

“Roche's appointment to the position
of Resident Magistrate over other, more senior
Removable Magistrates was questioned, as was
his ability to impartially enforce the Crimes Act,
given his association with the Loyal and Patriotic
Union, a fervently anti-Home Rule organization. '3
Roche's reputation for harsh sentencing and for
self-importance was likewise a cause for complaint
in the House of Commons." In this photograph he
wears a check-pattern yellow-hued suit, which he
wore frequently in the eviction photographs. He
was often recorded as he is seen here, sitting on a
low boundary wall, acting as "judge and jury', in the
summary sentencing of those who resisted eviction.
He was remembered later with his hat rakishly riding
forward on the bridge of his nose as he sentenced the
evicted tenants on the spot”

www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/vandeleur_evict...

Cecil Roche, Barrister 15 Herbert Street
(per Thoms 1884 & Slator 1894)
Emily was his mother. She died in 1902