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This post continues with the laborious process of trying to follow Patrick Byrne’s touring itinerary. This post covers 1852, when he went to Edinburgh and Fife, and then returned to Dublin and Monaghan.
Continue reading Patrick Byrne part 12: Scotland and Ireland, 1852Header image © National Galleries Scotland, used under license CC-BY-NC
As we get further and further on in Patrick Byrne’s life-story, we have more and more information. So this post deals with just three months, from July to October 1849, following Patrick Byrne as he chases Queen Victoria around different parts of her realm.
Continue reading Patrick Byrne part 9: Playing for the Queen, summer 1849After 12½ years in St Andrews I have moved to Armagh – from the ancient ecclesiastical centre of Scotland, to the ancient ecclesiastical centre of Ireland.
