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2 Dublin U. L.J. 76 (1978-1980)
Professor Frances Moran

handle is hein.journals/dubulj2 and id is 78 raw text is: Obitu ary PROFESSOR FRANCES MORAN Professor Frances Elizabeth Moran, who for 30 years was Professor and then Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College, Dublin, died on October 7th 1977 at the age of 83. She was a woman of dominant and attractive personality who achieved success in a country which still has rather old fashioned ideas about the place of women in society. Born on December 6th, 1893, the second daughter of SenatorJames Moran, she was educated at Dominican College and Trinity before being called to the Irish Bar in 1924, at which she took silk in 1941. In 1925 she was appointed to the first of a succession of posts in the Law School at Trinity. In 1932 she became Professor of Equity at the King's Inns and in 1934 was appointed Professor of Laws at Trinity. From these two positions she dominated Irish legal education, and won a place of peculiar respect and affection in the hearts not only of lawyers but of Trinity graduates in general. In 1944 she was made Regius Professor at Trinity, holding the chair until 1963. She retired from the King's Inns professorship in 1968. Fran Moran's lectures were rigorous affairs. She liked to begin at 9 a.m. and on the stroke of the hour her petite figure, beautifully groomed, and clad in a rather formidable black silk garment, mounted the rostrum. A few well-directed questions on such topics as the Rule in Shelley's Case and the Contingent Remainders Act, 1887, exposed the ignorance of the class, whose members were then quite content to accept an account of the law of property dictated at paralysing speed. These lectures were not marked by slavish adherence to the latest research, but rather taught the virtues of accuracy and precision. Sloppiness in law or in the use of English was fot tolerated . As she took a keen, if somewhat selective interest in the lives of her pupils, and was always well-informed, the future lawyer might also find that any deviation from the high standards of behaviour to be expected of a member of a learned profession was rebuked in some scorching phrase of the kind which comes easily to citizens of Dublin assessing each other's conduct. Acquaintances revealed the mellow side of her character. Like ail Irish people, she loved a social occasion and was an indefatigable attender at Trinity Week parties - always adorned in a very gay, but never unsuitable hat. To a favoured few she would dispense sherry, cigarettes, and legal gossip with a lavid hand in her own college rooms. She was always receptive to new ideas, and surprisingly tolerant of the changes suggested to ier by the junior members of her staff. Most suitably, she became the first woman to sit on the Board of the College. Her taste for adventure led her to attend the Nuremberg Trials (lier comments on judges. counsel, and prisoners would have been an addition to international law and history if anyone had collected them), and also to undertake some world tours for the International Federation of University Women, of which she became President. (Reproduced from The Times by permission)

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