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The Daily Dispatch: April 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Prince Albert statue — Mob in Ireland. (search)
The Prince Albert statue — Mob in Ireland. At an immense meeting held at the rotunda, Dublin, on the evening of the 22d of February, by The O Donoghue and Mr. Sullivan, of the Nation, to protest against the erection of a statue to Prince Albert in College green, the Fenlan Brotherhood stormed the platform, routed the chairman and committee, and after a desperate fight of fifteen minutes remained masters of the ground, waving a flag and flourishing a naked sword. It is alleged that some of the combatants were the American uniform. The Manchester Guardian publishes the following account of the affair: The rotunda at Dublin was crowded on Monday night in response to an advertisement which appeared in some of the local papers, calling upon "Irish patriots" to assemble and protest against "the recent vote of the corporation of Dublin, by which College green has been assigned away to King William III and Prince Albert, and the statue of Henry Grattan excluded therefrom forever