>From :- John Shepperd via<http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&ctx=mail&answer=1311182> rootsweb.com 13:01 (6 hours ago) 13/06/2013 to irl-carlow Well hearty congrats to Mr Gorman. How long did he serve, and what records were kept of his inquests? >From Mick Purcell :- John, on behalf of Mr. Edward Gorman ( who is seriously indisposed at present ) I thank you for your hearty congrats on his election, I am sure, with foresight, he would have appreciated your belated good wishes. Mr Gorman served for many years as Coroner in Carlow, he appears to have been very good at his job and was kept very busy, his handwriting recording the Inquests is very difficult to decipher. ( as is the handwriting of all the other coroners before him !) The Coroner election was not the last time Mr Gorman was involved in election issues, the following year Mr Gorman was knocked from his horse at Browne's Hill by a mob and beaten with sticks and stones in the run up to the election contest of that year between Mr Kavanagh and Mr Bruen . At present Michael Purcell is working on the Inquest Returns from the D'Israeli collection ( see below ) Disraeli Inquest material on loan to Michael Purcell. Over the next 12 months we will be transcribing Inquest reports from the Disraeli Papers, the collection is on loan to us. As the material forms part of a private collection we are unable to publish all of the material, we hope to publish a few examples and give some copies to Trevor for scanning. We will be watching for reports concerning some of the surnames being researched on the Carlow IGP list. The Timmons man named in this report was a highly regarded "bone-setter" living at Borlum, Carlow town during this period. ( Grace Bunbury, Feb. 2012 ).