DUBLIN'S MAYORESS
HATRED DF BRITAIN REFUSAL TO WEAR ROBES OF OFFICE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyrigh LONDON, July 23. Mrs Tom Clarke, the first woman Lady Mayoress of Dublin, and widow of the first signatory for the proclamation of the republic, who was executed in 1916 after the rebellion, removed from Mansion House an oil painting of Queen Victoria attired in crinoline and bejewelled, as it was a symbol of the monarchy, which is regarded with hatred in Ireland. Mrs Clarke refuses to wear the robes of office because they are “ red rags of the British period.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23326, 24 July 1939, Page 9
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95DUBLIN'S MAYORESS Evening Star, Issue 23326, 24 July 1939, Page 9
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