Posts Tagged ‘Irish Free State’

Archbishop Mannix and St Patrick’s Day as propaganda

Tuesday, April 26th, 2016

Fourteen Australian recipients of the highest Commonwealth military honour, the Victoria Cross, are mounted on grey chargers. They lead the carriage of the Irish-born Archbishop of Melbourne, Daniel Mannix, along Bourke Street in Melbourne. Around 10,000 first world war veterans and throngs of Catholic schoolboys march behind the procession while tens of thousands of Melburnians Read more