IRISH KILTS A RARITY.

Mt Benger Mail, 19 October 1938, Page 1

IRISH KILTS A RARITY.

PEER WHO WAS NEARLY ARRESTED. A prominent figure at the Dublin Horse Show recently was Lord Ashbourne. This Erse-speaking, kilt-wear-ing peer was at one time considered & possible candidate for the Presidency of Eire. An old Harrovian and an ex-presi-dent of the Gaelic League, Lord Ashbourne lives at Compiegne and seldom goes to Ireland more than once a year. He wears his green kilt regularly in France, and used at one time to do so .in the House of Lords.

f *'Kilts in Dublin are now sufficiently numerous for Lord Ashbourne’s attire to have attracted comparatively_little attention. Once, however, it nearly earned him arrest.

This was some 30 years ago, when Irish kilts were a rarity in Dublin. Lon}, Ashbourne, complete with kilt, was out for a stroll in St. Stephen’s Green with Sir Robert Ponsonby Staples, the painter-baronet who, until recently—he is now 85—believed in taking a daily stroll in his bare feet. It was ohly'with some difficulty that a park-keeper could bo restrained from sending for the police on seeing two distinguished Irishmen, one with bare knees and the other with bare feet.

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