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






YOU MAY ALSO LIKE...

The Irish Times ePaper

Stardust

Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people

Common Ground

How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands