From the Archives: December 19th, 1859

It took more than two weeks for news of the execution of ‘John Browne’ – the American anti-slavery activist John Brown, who helped spark the American Civil War – to reach Dublin in 1859, prompting this editorial in the newspaper’s first year of publication






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