Beyond his work as a Supreme Court judge, Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman was a writer, historian, and Joycean.
His great love of all things James Joyce resulted in lectures on the author’s work, at home and abroad, including one entitled Murderers, Hawkers and Jumpers. In this, he revisited the real-life cases that made their way into Ulysses. An accomplished orator, when he gave the lecture, at the Little Museum of Dublin, during the Dublin James Joyce Festival in 2012, tickets sold out rapidly.
A member of the Royal Irish Academy, last month he delivered a lecture about the trial of Robert Emmet in Green Street Court House, where the trial took place in 1803.
He contributed to the Dublin Review of Books and was also involved in broadcasting before his appointment as a judge.
A fluent Irish language speaker, he was due to give an address at NUI Galway on Monday, questioning the State’s commitment to the Irish language. He was also due to give a lecture on Easter Monday, in the Four Courts, on the 1916 Proclamation.
