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Introducing Mr. Cecil Roche of Dublin Castle - with glasses

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 46 older comments, and then…
• Foxglove said:

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

• O Mac said:

  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.

• Dún Laoghaire Micheál said:

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

• Suck Diesel said:

  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...

• Dún Laoghaire Micheál said:

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