3-070-918 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Irish Land League Trials: the leading counsel for the defence - Mr. F. Macdonogh, Q.C.; Mr. M'Loughlin, Q.C.; Mr. S. Walker, Q.C., 1881. Lawyers at the trial of '...Mr. C. S. Parnell, M.P., and thirteen other leading members of the Irish Land League...in the Irish Court of Queen's Bench at Dublin...But Mr. Parnell and several others of the "traversers," or defendants, who are members of the House of Commons, have ceased to attend their trial, having come to London for the opening of ParliamentThe witnesses have...been cross-examined by Mr. Macdonogh, Q.C.,Mr. M'Loughlin, Q.C., and Mr. Walker, Q.C., as counsel for the defence. Portraits or these learned gentlemen, in their most characteristic attitudes while engaged together, on the one side and on the other, in the present trial, were sketched a few days since by our Special Artist, Mr. Wallis Mackay, and are now presented on the front page of this Number of our Journal. The case for the Crown was closed on Tuesday last, by the examination of its last witness; and the Court then adjourned to Thursday morning, on account of the slight indisposition of Mr. Macdonogh, the leading counsel for the defence, who would then have to begin his speech'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.