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Judge John O'Hagan 1825-1890 (Paperback)
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Judge John O'Hagan 1825-1890 (Paperback)
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Born in Newry, educated at a Jesuit school in Dublin, John O'Hagan
studied Law and Arts at Dublin University. There he became friendly
with Thomas Davis, Gavan Duffy, and other Young Irelanders. He
wrote for the Nation newspaper and was the author of some of its
best known ballads. He toured Munster with Duffy and the poet Denis
Florence McCarthy, and Ulster with Duffy and John Mitchel, and
published accounts of both adventures, which cast light on the
country side and people during the 1840s. After the 1848
revolution, O'Hagan worked as a lawyer on the Munster Circuit.
Subsequently, he became friendly with John Henry Newman and
lectured in Law, Literature and the Arts in Newman's Catholic
University. He stayed in touch with Newman after the latter had
returned to England. In the 1860s, O'Hagan was appointed a
Commissioner for National Education, a post and subject of great
interest to him up to his death. In that decade also he married
Frances O'Hagan, who was much younger than him. They had a happy
marriage and their house on the hill of Howth was a welcome centre
for poets such as Gerard Manley Hopkins and Aubrey de Vere, and a
range of friends, writers, educationists, lawyers, and clergy. John
O'Hagan prospered in a career in equity law, and he was appointed
in turn chairman of the court of quarter sessions in Leitrim and in
Clare. While in Clare, the title was raised to that of Judge. In
1880 he was appointed to take charge of the land commission arising
from Mr Gladstone's Land Act of 1881. He died in 1890 widely
mourned and praised as a man of integrity who, in the words of The
Spectator magazine, was 'known to all not only as a most learned
and experienced lawyer with a serene temper and a judgement of rare
balance, but as a scholar of wide and liberal culture, a man
beloved and respected by all who knew him'.
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