DUBLIN MAYORESS ACTS
QUEEN’S PORTRAIT MOVED REFUSAL OF ROBES (R'ecd. July 24, 9 a.m.) LONDON, July 22. Mrs. Tom Clarke, the first woman to become Lady Mayoress of Dublin, the widow of the first signatory for the proclamation of a republic, who was executed in 1916 after the rebellion, removed an oil painting of Queen Victoria, attired in a crinoline, and bejewelled, from the Mansion House as a symbol of the monarchy which caused hatred in Ireland. Mrs. Clarke refused to wear the robes of office because, she declared, they represented the “red rags of the British period."
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19997, 24 July 1939, Page 5
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