The Irish Bar. Comprising Anecdotes, Bon-Mots, and Biographical Sketches of The Bench and Bar of Ireland. London; Sampson Low, 1879. First Edition. Pp xii, 442. Publisher’s green cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to spine, with decorative design to upper cover. Ex library copy with stamps and label to front endpapers, stenciled number to tail of spine. A good copy.

J. Broderick O’Flanagan (1814–1900) was a Cork born lawyer and writer. He studied at the King’s Inns, Dublin, and at Gray’s Inn and the Inner Temple, London; he was called to the Irish bar in the Easter term of 1838, and joined the Munster circuit. 

His books ‘The Irish Bar’ (1879) and ‘The Munster Circuit’ (1880) are primarily anecdotal but contain valuable impressions of legal contemporaries and predecessors.