‘The leading advocate of every murderer, ruffian and rogue villain’‘The leading advocate of every murderer, ruffian and rogue villain’

The life and times of John Philpot Curran. By Patrick Gageby Sadly, barristers are not now as popular as they used to be. John Philpot Curran was probably the most widely known barrister, Irish or British, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His speeches were reprinted throughout the nineteenth century, and in Ireland ... Read more

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