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007 The Four Courts

'This picture gives some idea of the enormous extent of the Four Courts buildings, one of the architectural features of the city. In this great fire, judgments in important suits, appeals, titles to property, and will and probate matter of enormous value perished. A front view of the buildings as they stood before Wednesday, 5th July last, afforded no adequate idea of their extent and commodiousness. There were buildings at the rear, facing Greek Street, and the Police Courts, which were a veritable hive of business. Here were situated the Probate Court, the Land Court, the Land Registry (a new building), the Bankruptcy Court and Bankruptcy offices, and the Taxing Master's offices, jurors' waiting rooms, the solicitor's building and library, rooms in which barristers and solicitors consulted with their clients, a spacious restaurant, and numerous other apartments. Apart from the block of buildings which contained the courts and offices above mentioned, there was a specially constructed building for the safe-keeping of the public records. It was not safe enough, however, to preserve its contents'. ('Ireland's Tragic Week', p. 5)

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