Reputation
During the first three decades of its existence, the reputation of the Court of Appeal was very high, arguably higher than that of any other tribunal in Irish legal history. Maurice Healy, writing in 1939, thought that the Court as constituted about 1900 "could compare with any college of justice in history". V.T.H. Delaney, writing in 1960, believed that every Irish barrister would choose the Court of Appeal of that era as representing the Irish judiciary at their best. This reputation depended on the quality of the individual judges: Christopher Palles is still often called " the greatest of Irish judges", and Gerald Fitzgibbon, Hugh Holmes and Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne were his intellectual equals. Inevitably, as these men died or retired, there was a problem in finding replacements of equal calibre, and after Holmes retired in 1913 the reputation of the Court declined. In its last years, according to Healy, the judges were notable only for their constant quarrelling, and in 1924 the new Irish Free State forcibly retired them.
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