Thom's Irish Who's Who/Kelly, Richard J.

3196011Thom's Irish Who's Who — Kelly, Richard J.


KELLY, Richard J., K.C., J.P. Revising Barrister for the City of Dublin; Director of the National Bank; Governor of the Richmond, Whitworth, and Hardwicke Hospitals. Chairman of Tuam Herald Co.; for 30 years a member of the Institute of Journalists; for 20 years member of the British and International Association of Journalists; one of the founders of the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland. Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries; Barrister-at-Law from 1880 to 1908; King's Counsel, 1908; Assistant, Legal Land Commissioner. J.P. for Counties Galway and Dublin. Author of following law books: Law of Newspaper Libel (Clowes & Co., London); The Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891, (Sealy, Bryers); Handbook of Registration Law (Sealy, Bryers); The Agricultural and Technical Instruction Act (Sealy, Bryers); The Workman's Compensation Act (do.); Old Age Pension Act (do.); Local Registration of Title Act and Small Dwellings Act (do.). The Adulteration Acts; The Statutes relating to Landlord and Tenant and Land Purchase (1860-1896): the Registration Act. And the following pamphlets: The Island of Arran; The Evils of Emigration; The Effects of Emigration; Life of Pius X. and Benedict XV; Popular and Patriotic Poetry (nine parts); Lord Morris: a memoir; Bohemia and its People; The Islands of the Corrib; Galway as a Transatlantic Port; The Industrial Resources of Ireland; Agricultural Labourers; The Old Publishers of Dublin; Peasant Proprietary; The Railway Problem; The Onseley Family; The Irish in Prague; The Warden of Galway; History of Tuam; St. Jarlath's of Tuam. Holds the silver medal of merit from the City of Prague (Bohemia) and certificate of citizenship. Res.: Hymany, 7 Ailesbury Road, Dublin.