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Raising The Bar
Rosemary Raughter on Greystones' trailblazing barrister
Just to remind us all of this fact, three of the town’s most
When it comes to the Greystones icons being celebrated, we’ve charted the many incredible achievements of Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed before, and we’re about to dig deeper with Republican activist and author MáirÃn Cregan Ryan. Today,
Born at 26 Leeson Street, Dublin in 1893, Averil and her twin brother, William, moved with parents William Sr and Ada Kate to Greystones in 1903, settling initially into Judge Brereton Barry’s ‘pretty house’, Inniskeen, on Killincarrick Road. Seven years –
When the war finally ended in 1918, and upon her father’s encouragement, Averil began to train as a barrister, and on November 1st, 1921, at King’s Inn, she and Frances Kyle, a Belfast woman, were the first two women ever to be called to the bar in Ireland. Frances would return to
There was much more to Averil Deverell than just breaking the law ceiling, of course, including early campaigning work alongside her mother for the suffrage movement, her love of theatre (becoming a leading member of the University Players at TCD),
The great Liz Goldthorpe [left, with Pat Vance, John Murray and George Jones] will be launching August’s Our Wicklow
Four years after Averil departed the family home in 1975, moving to Applewood Heights with the family’s longtime housekeeper, Mrs Bourke, as her nurse, she would pass away, aged 86, and is buried in The Grove cemetery alongside her brother. As luck would have it, Ellesmere’s new resident, Ossie Spurling, stumbled across boxes upon boxes of Averil’s personal notes, papers, photographs and documents, and recognised immediately their importance.
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