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| Date | | | | | 22-Aug-1861 | | Arrival in Dublin of Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince Consort. On the 24th, the Queen and Prince Consort reviewed the troops at the Camp at the Curragh, where the Prince of Wales had been performing military duties for some months. After staying a few days in Ireland, and visiting Killarney, where Her Majesty and the Prince Consort were entertained by the Right Hon. Viscount Castlerosse, M.P., and the Right Hon. Colonel Henry Herbert, M.F., the Royal party embarked at Kingstown, on their way to Balmoral, where they arrived on the 31st. | | | 11-Sep-1861 | | Grand ball given at the Mansion House by the Right Hon. Richard Atkinson, Lord Mayor, which was honoured by the presence of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. | | | 18-Dec-1861 | | Meeting called by the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House, "for the purpose of considering the propriety of paying a tribute of national respect to the memory of the late Right Hon. the Earl of Eglinton and Winton, K.T., &c. in consideration of his great exertions to advance the material interests of Ireland," postponed until the 31st, in consequence of the death of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, who expired at Windsor Castle, on the 14lth, after a few days' illness, deeply mourned by all Her Majesty's faithful subjects, as an irreparable loss to Her Majesty, the Royal Family, and the Nation. | | | 7-Jul-1862 | | Foundation stone of the new College of Physicians in Kildare-street, laid by His Excellency the Earl of Carlisle, K.G., Lord Lieutenant; Dominic J. Corrigan, M.D., President of the College. | | | 20-Jul-1862 | | (Sunday) Foundation stone of the Roman Catholic University, to be erected at Drumcondra, laid. | | | 11-Aug-1862 | | Foundation stone of the new Church of St. Andrew's, St. Andrew's-street, laid by His Excellency the Earl of Carlisle, K.G., Lord Lieutenant. | | | 26-Nov-1863 | | Foundation stone of the Presbyterian Church, Rutland-square, laid by the donor of it, Alexander Findlater, Esq. | | | 8-Aug-1864 | | Foundation Stone of a monument to Daniel O'Connell laid in Sackville street. | | | 17-Nov-1864 | | The Presbyterian Church, Rutland square, opened for public worship by the Rev. Dr. Cooke, LL.D., of Belfast. The site of this church was purchased by the Presbyterian congregation, worshipping in Mary's Abbey, at a cost of £2,600. The church, the gift of Alexander Findlater, esq., cost £14,000. Architect, Thomas Heaton,esq., Perth. Builder, Mr. S. H. Bolton, Dublin. The congregation have placed a beautiful stained glass window in the southern end of the church, the work of James Ballantine and Son, of Edinburgh, commemorative of the donor's gift. | | | 24-Feb-1865 | | St. Patrick's Cathedral re-opened, after its restoration through the munificence of Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, bart., at a cost of over £150,000, in presence of His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and a number of distinguished personages, when the sermon at morning prayers was preached by the Most Rev. Dr. Trench, Archbishop of Dublin, and the sermon in the evening was preached by the Hon. and Rev. William Conyngham Plunket, Treasurer of the Cathedral. | |
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