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| Date | | | | | 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. | | | 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. | |
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