Mayoress Of Dublin’s Anti-British Gesture
DUBLIN, July 22,
The first Mayoress of Dublin, Mrs Clarke, widow of the first signatory for the proclamation of a Republic, who was executed in 1916 after the rebellion, has caused to be removed from the Mansion House an oil painting of Queen Victoria in a crinoline and wearing a sash of jewels, on the ground that it is a symbol of monarchy which is hated in Ireland. Mrs Clarke refuses to wear the robes of office, because they are “red rags of the British period.”
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Northern Advocate, 24 July 1939, Page 5
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