Speeches at the Bar and in the Senate By The Right Honourable Wm. Conyngham, Lord Plunket, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland. Edited with a Memoir and Historical Notices by John Cashel Hoey. Dublin: James Duffy, 1856. First Edition. Pp, 450. Publisher’s green cloth boards, decorated in blind, title in gilt to spine. Cloth cracked & worn a long spine, but joints still strong and intact, corners bumped.

This copy has an inscribed gift note from Hoey to the Right Hon. David Moriarty, Bishop of Kerry, Signed and dated the same year of publication (pasted on to front free endpaper).

A distinguished Irish statesman and jurist, Plunket was a leading advocate for Catholic emancipation and parliamentary reform.

Called to the Irish Bar in 1787, he became a prominent Whig politician, serving as Solicitor-General (1803) and Attorney-General (1805) for Ireland. As Lord Chancellor of Ireland (1830–41), he played a key role in legal reforms.