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| Date | | | | | 5-Mar-1867 | | party of Fenians commence a rising, and proceed to the neighbourhood of Tallaght. Upon being summoned to surrender by twelve of the constabulary force, they fired upon the police, who returned the fire, and wounded five of the insurgents. The constabulary subsequently captured 83 of the Fenian body, and the remainder, after wandering about for a short time, during very severe weather, finally dispersed. | | | 27-Apr-1867 | | Trial of the Fenians, Burke and Doran, commences at the Special Commission. They were found guilty of high treason and sentenced to be hanged; but the sentence on Doran was commuted to penal servitude, and the sentence on Burke was ultimately commuted to penal servitude for life, | | | 31-Oct-1867 | | Early in the morning, Constable Patrick Keena was fired at on Wellington-quay by a man (supposed to be connected with the Fenian organization) whom he attempted to stop, and who afterwards fired at Sergeant Kelly in Eustace-street. Both the policemen were severely wounded ; Keena died of his wound, in the hospital, but Sergeant Kelly recovered. | | | 1-Nov-1867 | | St. Peter's Church, which had been almost rebuilt at a cost of nearly £7,000, re-opened for divine service by Archbishop Trench. Ven. William Lee, D.D., rector; Rev. Morgan W. Jellett, M.A., Re-^j, G. A. Patton, M.A., curates ; Edward H. Carson, esq., C.E. architect; John Butler, Esq., builder; Arthur E. Guinness, Esq., Thomas Greene, Esq., churchwardens. | | | 1-Nov-1867 | 7 | At the Commission Court, the Fenian "Colonel" John Warren was found guilty. "General" Fariola pleaded guilty. "Captain" A. Costello and "General" Halpin were also found guilty. Warren and Halpin were sentenced to 15 years, and Costello to 12 years penal servitude. | | | 23-Dec-1867 | | The new Church of St. Bartholomew, on the Elgin and Clyde roads, consecrated by the Archbishop of Dublin. | | | 1868 | | The Vartry Water Works completed this year, when the entire city, together with the Pembroke and Blackrock townships, were supplied with Vartry water, and the old Canal supplies entirely discontinued. The works were commenced in 1863, and consist of a large storage reservoir, near Roundwood, in the county Wicklow, which covers an area of 410 acres, and can hold 2,400,000,000 gallons of water, equal to seven months supply. Attached are filter beds, through which all the water is passed before being admitted into mains; the water is conveyed through a tunnel nearly 3 miles long to Callowhill, and thence through an iron pipe; 33 inches diameter, to Stillorgan, a distance of about 22 miles. This reservoir contains 84,000,000 gallons, and the level is 250 feet above the quays in Dublin. The water is conveyed from those reservoirs by 2-inch pipes, 27 inches diameter, to the city boundary at Leeson-Street bridge, and is thence distributed over the city. The total cost of works has been, embracing every charge, about £550,000, In 1866, the water of the Vartry was turned from the old course through the now cut, by the late Earl of Carlisle, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on which occasion be conferred the honour of knighthood on Sir John Gray, the chairman of the Waterworks Committee, to whose great energy and perseverance the carrying of this great measure through Parliament, and the subsequent satisfactory completion of the works is mainly due. The works were designed and carried out by Mr. Parke Neville, C,E. | | | 15-Apr-1868 | | The Prince and Princess of Wales landed from the Royal Yacht, at Kingstown, proceeded to Dublin with their suite, &c, in open carriages. The cortege passed through Blackrock, Monkstown, Booterstown, and Merrion; the route through the city was by of Baggot-street, Fitzwilliam-street, Merrion-square, Clare street, Nassau-street, College-green, and Dame-street, 'to Dublin Castle. The reception of the Prince and Princess of Wales, on this and every other occasion when their Royal Highnesses appeared in public, was 1 enthusiastic in the extreme. | | | 16-Apr-1868 | | Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Punchestown races. | | | 18-Apr-1868 | | His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was installed in St. Patrick's Cathedral, as a Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, with great pomp and ceremony, by His Excellency the Marquess of Abercorn, K.G., Grand Master of the Order, in presence of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, His Serene Highness Prince Teck, His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Her Excellency the Marchioness of Abercorn, and a vast number of the nobility and gentry of Ireland. There were sixteen of the installed knights present, viz.: The Duke of Cambridge, the Marquesses of Drogheda, Downshire, Clanrickarde, Headfort, and Conyngham; the Earls of Charlemont, Dartrey, Arran, Howth, Dunravon, Cork and Orrery and Granard , the Lords Dufferin and Claneboye, Lurgan, and Farnham. The streets were lined with military from the Castle to the west gate of the Cathedral, and the Prince and his youthful consort were received with the utmost enthusiasm. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant gave a magnificent banquet in the evening in St. Patrick's Hail, Dublin Castle, in celebration of the event, to a distinguished company, and proposed the health of the Prince of Wales in a brilliant speech, to which His Royal Highness gracefully replied. | |
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