appointed under the Act over a two-year period. When only relatively few cases remained to be disposed of, the Judicial Commission was abolished and its jurisdictions and powers transferred to the High Court. During this period, the Courts of Justice Act, 1924 was debated and enacted, creating the Irish courts hierarchy that still largely exists. Representations in popular culture Seán Keating’s painting, A Republican Court, 1921, completed 1946, now hangs in Collins Barracks, Cork. Ken Loach's film The Wind That Shakes the Barley, features an extended fictional scene from a Dáil Court in session. The presiding judge, Lily, (Fiona Lawton), is undermined by Teddy O'Donovan, (Pádraic Delaney), the local senior IRA officer. Rather than enforcing the decision of the court, Teddy releases a convicted prisoner because he has been financing the purchase of rifles. He is publicly challenged by Lily to return to the Court, where the IRA rail against the Gombeen man's conviction (charging a poor old woman an exorbitant rate of interest). The script indicates how the more 'pragmatic' militants were prepared to subvert other institutions of the Republic when they deemed it expedient. This duplicity is a portent of the 'practicality versus principles' dilemma that soon leads to Civil War. Sources Republished, Gaunt, Incorporated, 1999 See Chapter XVII The Judicial System Podcast by Mary Kotsonouris Thomas Davis Lectures RTÉ Archives. Scroll to No. 7. References External links "Dáil courts" article from Dáil 100 commemorative website Institutions of the Irish Republic (1919–1922) 1920 establishments in Ireland Irish War of Independence Courts and tribunals established in 1920 Courts and tribunals disestablished in 1925 Courts of Ireland 1925 disestablishments in Ireland