‘I’ve had this girl examined by a doctor and she is pregnant. And you are the cause of it’: The remarkable story of historic Irish case

It was a bright July morning when 19-year-old Cyril Griffith and a friend set off for Howth. As the fifth of seven children living with his parents, younger brother and sister in the family home on Eccles Street in Dublin, going away for a night’s camping at the weekend had become something of a trend for Griffith and other teenagers living in the inner city in the 1920s.