Queen Victoria’s Portrait Removed
INCIDENT IN DUBLIN United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Sunday, 9.20 p.m. LONDON, July 23. Mrs. Tom Clark, the first woman lady Mayor of Dublin and widow of the first signatory for the proclamation of tho republic who was executed in 1916 after the rebellion, removed an oil painting of Queen Victoria attired in a crinoline and sash and bejewelled, from tho Mansion House as a symbol of monarchy which was the hatred of Ireland. Mrs. Clarke refused to wear the robes of office because they were the 4 * red rags of the British period."
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 172, 24 July 1939, Page 7
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