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| Date | | | | | 7-Aug-1849 | | The Queen visited the Bank of Ireland, Trinity College, and the Schools of the Board of National Education in Marlborough-street, where some of the pupils were examined, and honoured by the gracious approbation of Her Majesty. When inspecting the fine Library of Trinity College, a copy of Sallust of the fifteenth century, having in it the autograph of Mary Queen of Scots, was shown to Her Majesty, who was pleased to favour the university with another autograph still more interesting and estimable, by writing her name on a blank leaf of the Book of Kells, immediately beneath which Prince Albert also affixed his signature, each bearing the date of the day which marked this incident. | | | 8-Aug-1849 | | The Queen and Prince Albert visited the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham, and inspected the faithful veterans of her Irish soldiery; Her Majesty went into some of the soldiers' rooms, and addressed the veterans in the following words: "I am glad indeed to see you all so very comfortable." In the afternoon Her Majesty held a levee in Dublin Castle, the most numerous and the most influential as to rank and splendour that had ever been assembled in the city. | | | 9-Aug-1849 | | The Queen, accompanied by Prince Albert, and a splendid and numerous suite, presided in the Phoenix Park at a review of the military, consisting of four regiments of Cavalry, eight regiments of Infantry, three divisions of horse and foot Artillery, and a number of the Constabulary and Police force; after which Prince Albert visited the Royal Dublin Society, where he received a deputation of the members of that learned body. In the evening the Queen held a Drawing-room, which exhibited an unprecedented display of rank, fashion, and beauty, unparalleled on any former occasion. | | | 10-Aug-1849 | | The Queen visited their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Leinster, at their mansion at Carton, where the Royal party partook of a collation; after which, having returned to the Viceregal Lodge, the Royal family proceeded by railroad train to Kingstown, and embarked amidst the acclamations of the assembled thousands. On leaving the pier, the Royal standard was lowered and raised again on board the Royal Yacht, in token of her Majesty's gracious sense of the reception bestowed upon her by her subjects of Dublin - a mark of honour never before employed, except for a Royal Personage. The squadron attending Her Majesty consisted of ten war steamers, and the Victoria and Albert yacht. | | | 8-Apr-1850 | | Aggregate meeting of the citizens of Dublin to petition against the abolition of the Vice-royalty of Ireland. | | | 18-Apr-1850 | | Dublin visited by a violent thunder-storm, when property to the amount of £27,000 was destroyed. | | | 15-Aug-1850 | | Charter granted by Her Majesty Queen Victoria for the foundation of a new university in Dublin, to be called "The Queen's University in Ireland" His Excellency the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., appointed the first chancellor. | | | 18-Nov-1850 | | At the requisition of Archbishop Murray, the Roman Catholic Clergy of the Arch-Diocese meet at the Presbytery, Marlborough-street, and agree to an address of congratulation to the English Catholics on the restoration of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in England. | | | 4-Jan-1851 | | An address to the Archbishop of Canterbury, published by the Prelates of the Established Church in Ireland, remonstrating with his Grace on their being passed over as a component part of the Church of England in the memorial of the English Bishops to the Queen on the subject of the restoration of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. | | | 21-Jan-1851 | | The Lord Mayor, Benjamin Lee Guinness, Esq. gave his inaugural banquet in the Mansion House, on a scale of unusual splendour. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and most of the leading nobility and gentry in the city were among the guests. | |
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