MONAHAN

James Henry (eld. son of Michael Monahan of Heath lawn near Portumna, Galway). b. Portumna 1804; ed. at Banagher and Trin. coll. Dublin; pa ed first in science and took the gold medal 1823; student of Gray’s Inn 4 Feb. 1826; called to Irish bar 1828; became leader of Con naught circuit; Q.C. 6 Feb. 1840; bencher of King’s Inns 1847; solicitor general for Ireland 16 July 1846, attorney general 24 Dec. 1847 to 23 Sep. 1850; M.P. for borough of Galway 17 Feb. to Aug. 1847; contested Clonmel 10 Aug. 1847; P.C. Ireland 1848; chief justice of Irish court of common pleas Oct. 1850, resigned Jany. 1876, presided at special commi ion for trial of the Fenian prisoners at Cork and Limerick 1867; a comr. of national education 1861; author of The method of law, an e ay on the statement and arrangement of the legal standard of conduct 1878. d. 5 Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 8 Dec. 1878. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 11 Dec. The voice of the bar (1850); Irish law times , xii 605 (1878); O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes (1885) 309–12.