New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-02
povaI Pair To Be CHARTERED
This Week in Seven
Century-Old Structure
in Irish Capital.
Itch, 1911. by the Brentwood Company
tIppNi'e''' -.-. -. - n,oap Mary


X leave England for ireland TINS
IN week to hold royal court in that
s,,e If Dublin which, dingy with age
go from 1903. when its foundations
,rere laid by Henry de Loundres' being
completed some ten years later IL mas
,.rr,ed the official residence of The Vice
.ovs Of Ireland since the reign of queen
r,zabeth Its first royal occupant was
,y,,r John. who spent two days there
while il was vet in an incomplete state
in August, 1910
The next royal visit occurred nearly
two hundred years later, when klcharu
II snon, nine months at Dublin Castle,
and so delighted was he with his well
came that he returned again six years
ofterward. accompanied by Prince
uenrv who afterward assembled the
throne as Henry V,
Nearly three centuries then passed be-
fore another King held court at Dubln
Castle. 1t was James ii who, in loo9'
arrived from France in order to make al
attempt. with the help of his Irish SUP
iects to recover his throne. lie re-
manned there until fifteen months Ia'ei'
when he was defeated by his son-ln-la"'
King William III. at the battle OF the
Rovne on July /. 1890 and after that
another 1870 years elapsed before lreIahu
caught another glimpse of its sovereign
when she was visited by George ~, VINO
made his headquarters at Nlceregal
Lodge in Phoenix Park, but held court
AT Dublin Castle. also chapter OF the
Order Of st. Patrick.
Queen Victoria was at Dublin on FOUR
different occasions prior to the death OF
her husband. her first state visit taking
place in 1s49. on each of these occa-
sions she held court at Dublin Castle.
But when she returned as a widow, a
few years before her death, she kept
away from the castle, and restricted her-
self TO giving a series of dinners and re-
ceptions. also garden party, at Vice
recall Lodge. in Phoenix Park.
Edward VII during his nine years
making his headquarters at Viceregal
Lodge. and had intended to return
thitber in the summer of the year in
which he died.
King George and Queen Mary are no
strangers to the Emerald Isle. Both OF
them were frequently there prior to their
marriage. George usually as the guest Of
his elder brother, the late Duke of Clar-
ence. whose regiment, the 10th Hussars,
was stationed for several years at Dub.
lin. Indeed. il was during d stay of
George. then commander in the navy,
with the Duke of Clarence in Dublin that
both brothers contracted that attack of
typhoid fever which carried off the elder
and impaired the constitution of the
younger for a long time afterward.
King George and Queen Mary were
likewise in Ireland as Prince and Prin-
cess Of Wales. and spent week at Dub
lin as the guests of the Viceroy at the
lodge in Phoenix Park, the Queen in par
ticular winning many friends among the
masses by her sunny smile and her man.
fest desire to please, so that although
the royal couple are now paying their
first visit 10 Dublin as King and Queen,
vet they cannot in any way be regarded
as strangers either to Erin or to her
metropolis.
While Edward VII. Queen Victoria
and even George " made an excellent
impression upon the population of Dub
lin. and Of Ireland generally, which
found its expression in the extraordinary
enthusiasm that signalized their every
appearance in public throughout their
stays it is fact that, owing to the lack
Of tact Of the English officials concerned
IN the government of the Emerald Isle
and their characteristic and traditional
failure to understand the Irish character
and temperament. each royal sojourn in
Dublin was marred by some contretemps
for which the sovereign was in no sense
Of the word responsible. 1t is to be
4 feared that something of the same nature
may interfere with the complete success
OF the stay Of King George and Queen
6 Mary in Dublin this week. For the pro-
q eramme mapped out for them by the
n Niceroy, Lord Aberdeen: by the Secre-
y tary for Ireland, Augustine Birrell, and
q by the Asquith Cabinet, which is COM
3 mitted TO Home Rule and Irish nation
alism, comprises q visit in state to the
8 Protestant ST. Patrick's Cathedral, to the
& Protestant College Of Trinity, but not to
& the Catholic College Of MaynCoth al
q though It is endowed by the state.
81 King Edward went TO both, and visited
4 quite as many Roman Catholic as Prot
4 estant institutions; whereas no provision
q mas been made for Georges seeing any
OF the former. When King Edward was
IN Dublin he, realizing that almost the