Goethe: A New Pantomime

London: None Stated, 1850. First Edition . Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. First Edition, 16mo, red leather spine and tips, marbled boards and edges, 421 pp., a nice, tight, bright copy with only minor wear. Kenealy was a barrister and author. He graduated from Trinity College in1840 earned an LL.D in 1850. He was called to the Irish bar in 1840 and to the English bar in 1847. In April 1873 he became leading counsel for Orton, the Tichborne claimant, whose case he conducted in a manner so violent, and to himself so disastrous, that his mind may best be supposed to have become unsettled in the course of it. He made groundless imputations against witnesses and against various Roman Catholic bodies, insulted and trifled with the bench, and mercilessly protracted the case. The jury appended to their verdict a censure of the language he had employed. His conduct during and after the trial was brought before the professional tribunals. In 1874, he was expelled from the mess of the Oxford circuit, dispatented by the lord chancellor, and disbenched and disbarred by Gray's Inn. Kenealy was a voluminous writer publishing Brallaghan, or the Deipnosophists' in 1845; Goethe, a new Pantomime in 1850; a translation of Matthew Horgan's Cahir Conri, an Irish poem, in 1860; and Poems in 1864. His poetical works, mostly random writings, were collected in three volumes, 1875 - 79.