John O'Hagan

John O'Hagan ( born March 19, 1822 in Newry (Northern Ireland), † November 10, 1890 near Dublin) was an Irish lawyer and senior judges in English courts, who also worked as a writer.

Life and work

O'Hagan was born in 1822 in Ireland Newry. He attended a Jesuit school, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in law in 1842. In 1842 he was appointed to the province of Munster to the judge, Commissioner of Education in 1861 and in 1865 Attorney-General. In 1865 he married Frances, daughter of the first Lord O'Hagan. After William Ewart Gladstone had spent his Irish Land Act, was O'Hagan first judge of the Irish Land Commission and Supreme Court of England and Wales. John O'Hagan died in 1890 near Dublin.

He was an advocate of Catholic higher education and wrote in 1847 an article in the Dublin Review, which was reprinted by the Irish Catholic Truth Society under the title of Trinity College No Place for Catholics. O'Hagan was with John Kells Ingram, an Irish economist, poet and patriot, friend.

Works

• Dear Country ( poem )
• La Chanson de Roland ( translation )
• Ourselves Alone ( poem )
• The Children's Ballad Rosary