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| Date | | | | | 5-Aug-1848 | | Committal of William Smith O'Brien to Kilmainham gaol, having been arrested the previous evening at the Railway Station at Thurles. | | | 12-Aug-1848 | | Commitment to Kilmainham gaol of Meagher, O'Donoghue, and Leyne for High Treason. | | | 14-Aug-1848 | | Conviction of John Martin for felonious publications in The Irish Felon newspaper, and sentenced to 10 years' transportation. | | | 1-Nov-1848 | | Conviction of Kevin Izod O'Doherty for felonious publications in The Tribune newspaper ; sentence of 10 years' transportation passed on him. William Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher, T. B. McManus, and Patrick O'Donohoe, prisoners who were found guilty of High Treason, and sentenced to death at the September Special Commission, Clonmel, brought to Dublin and lodged in Kilmainham gaol, pending their appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench. Prisoners being heard by counsel, the judgment of the Court on the errors assigned was postponed until Hilary term January, 1849. | | | 16-Jan-1849 | | The Court of Queen's Bench gave judgment on the writs of error sued out by the State Prisoners convicted of High Treason at Clonmel and confirmed the judgment of the Court below. | | | Apr-1849 | | The cholera broke out in this month in the city, and continued to rage with intermitting violence till late in October, when the cholera hospitals wore finally closed. | | | 14-Apr-1849 | | Mr. Charles Gavan Duffy, of the Nation newspaper, discharged from custody on bail, having been tried for Treason-Felony, the jury disagreeing to a verdict. | | | 5-Jul-1849 | | Messrs. William Smith O'Brien, Meagher McManus, and O'Donohoe, State Prisoners, shipped on board H.M. S. Swift, at Kingstown, for transportation to Van Diemen's Land, the sentence of death passed at Clonmel having been commuted by Her Majesty. | | | 5-Aug-1849 | | The Royal squadron, consisting of ten war steamers, including the Victoria and Albert yacht, having on board Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and the Princess Alice, anchored in Kingstown Harbour about eight o'clock in the evening. The arrival of the Royal Cortege was hailed by the reiterated plaudits of the multitudes which had collected from the city and all the surrounding districts to witness the event; and the town of Kingstown was brilliantly illuminated after sunset on the occasion. | | | 6-Aug-1849 | | The Queen, after having received a deputation of the nobility and gentry of the county of Dublin, headed by the High Sheriff, John Ennis, esq., landed with Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and Princesses, and her retinue; proceeded in the special train provided for the occasion by the Directors of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway to Sandymount Avenue, whence they proceeded in the Royal Carriages through Ball's Bridge to Baggot-street, where a triumphal arch had been erected, where the Corporation of the Borough, headed by the Lord Mayor, now Sir Timothy O'Brien, bart., presented the keys of the city to Her Majesty, which were by her returned, and the cortege proceeded through Merrion-square, Nassau-street, Grafton-street, Westmoreland-street, Carlisle-bridge, Sackville-street, and the North Circular-road, to the Viceregal Lodge, Phoenix Park, the whole line of the procession being crowded by multitudes in carriages and on foot, who hailed Her Majesty with enthusiastic shouts of applause, and other demonstrations of welcome. After her arrival at the Phoenix Park, the Queen, accompanied, by the young Princes and Princesses in her carriage, and by Prince Albert and the Lord Lieutenant on horseback, visited the Botanic Gardens of the Royal Dublin Society in private. The city was brilliantly illuminated in the evening. The whole day passed without the slightest tumult or accident, and the vast assemblage of people collected to view the illuminations were at length compelled reluctantly to disperse by a fall of rain such as has not often been witnessed in this metropolis. | |
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