1882 WhitneyMoore Solicitors is founded

1884 The GAA is founded in Hayes Hotel, Thurles

1885 World’s first skyscraper built in Chicago

1888 J.B. Dunlop invents pneumatic tyre

1889 The Eiffel Tower is completed

1893 New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to grant women the vote

1896 First Modern Olympic Games held in Athens

1902 Intoxicating Liquor Act reduces the number of pub licences

1904 Abbey Theatre opens represented by WhitneyMoore

1912 The Titanic sinks on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic

1916 The Easter Rising takes place in Dublin

1919 Dáil Éireann establishes Civil and Criminal courts

1926 George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel Prize for Literature

1929 Stock markets around the world collapse

1936 Aer Lingus flies between Ireland and Britain for the first time

1937 The Constitution of Ireland comes into force

1948 Ireland beat Wales 6-3 to win the Grand Slam

1953 Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal reach top of Mt. Everest

1954 Roger Bannister breaks the 4 minute mile

1955 Ireland becomes a member of the United Nations

1957 The Space Age begins with the launch of Russia’s Sputnik 1

1961 First television broadcast by RTÉ takes place

1963 JFK is assassinated in Dallas, Texas

1969 Neil Armstrong walks on the moon

1973 Ireland becomes a member of the EEC

1974 Richard Nixon becomes the first sitting US president to resign

1977 Death of Elvis Presley

1979 Ireland is appointed a member of the European Monetary System

1980 John Lennon assassinated in New York city

1981 Introduction of the Personal Computer by IBM

1985 Ryanair founded

1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Accident

1987 Stephen Roche wins the Tour de France

1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall

1990 Nelson Mandela released after 27 years of imprisonment

1995 Seamus Heaney wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1997 Hong Kong returned to Chinese Rule

1998 Good Friday Agreement endorsed

1999 JFK Junior dies in a plane crash

2000 DOT COM crash

2001 Twin Towers in New York destroyed by terrorists

2002 Euro currency introduced in 12 countries

2003 Ireland hosts the Special Olympics

2004 Tsunami causes devastation in South-East Asia

2005 YouTube launched

2006 St. Andrews Agreement signed restoring the Northern Ireland Assembly

2007 Irish Cricket Team defeat Pakistan at the Cricket World Cup

2008 Barack Obama elected first African-American President of the USA

2009 Ireland beat Wales 17-15 to win the Grand Slam

Arthur Mullan

Arthur’s main practice areas are commercial litigation and insolvency and corporate recovery. He has been involved in a number of recent examinerships.

Arthur qualified as a solicitor in 2005 having graduated from Portobello College with a LLB (Hons). He has been with WhitneyMoore since joining as a trainee in 2002.

Arthur is a member of ISIP (The Irish Society of Insolvency Practitioners) and INSOL (The Association of Insolvency Practitioners).

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