Rare Footage of Queen Victoria Shows the Monarch's Last Trip to Ireland
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Two-hundred years after Queen Victoria's birth , the public is getting a rare look at the iconic British monarch. New moving-picture footage of Victoria's final visit to Ireland, which shows the Queen smiling, wearing sunglasses, and greeting the public, was recently discovered in storage at the Museum of Modern Art.
"I nearly fell off my chair because I'd never seen Victoria in close-up before," Bryony Dixon, a curator of the British Film Institute, who unearthed the film, said .
"Instead of a very still image like a posed photograph or a painting, we see her in movement," Dixon continued. "She smiles, very rare to see her smiling. She doesn't in any of the portraits. So it humanizes her, I think, for the first time."
The clip shows the Queen in 1900, just a year before she died, and in the video, she is being greeted by two young women, who curtsy to the monarch and present her with an over-flowing basket of flowers. Victoria appears to be wearing all black, as she did following the death of her husband, Prince Albert, in 1861, and is also carrying an umbrella , to shade her from the sun.
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While this new discovery was unexpected, there are certainly other planned celebrations of Queen Victoria's life in honor of the bicentenary of her birth. Notably, one exhibition centered around the Queen's life has already opened at Kensington Palace , and another is planned for later this summer at Buckingham Palace .
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Queen Victoria's Visit to Killarney and Muckross House, August 1861.
A dramatised account of Queen Vitoria's visit can be heard here.
At 6.30 pm on the evening of Monday, 26 August, the Royal train arrived in Killarney from Dublin. The Royal party were then escorted to Killarney House, where a large dinner was held that evening. The next day the Queen embarked at Ross Castle for a day on the Lakes. Lunch was served at Glena Cottage. In the evening the party returned to Ross Quay, from where they were escorted back to Killarney House.
At about 6.30pm that same evening, Tuesday 27 August, the Queen and her family set out for Muckross. They were accompanied by The Right Hon. Henry Arthur Herbert, Viscount Castlerosse (of the Kenmare family) and a troop of the Royal Dragoons. The Times described how Mr and Mrs Herbert received the Queen on the lawn at the door of Muckross House. A host of other ladies and gentlemen were also present and greeted the Queen enthusiastically. ( The Times , Friday 30 August 1861).
Elaborate preparations had been carried out at Muckross for the Royal visit. Tapestries, mirrors, Persian carpets, silverware, musical instruments, linen, china and servants' uniforms, are all said to have been specially commissioned for the occasion. The curtains, which still hang in the Dining Room of Muckross House, were specially woven, probably in Paris, for the occasion.
The Queen's apartments at Muckross were described in the local press as follows: 'An entire section of the mansion has been set apart for the royal family, so that all their apartments communicate without the necessity of passing into the corridors to be used by other occupants of the house. The Queen will live here in privacy, and from the windows of her rooms she can walk into delightful grounds, which will be kept private during her stay at Muckross. In her sitting room - which, like all the others, is a splendid apartment furnished richly and tastefully, there is a series of views of the Lakes of Killarney, painted by Mrs Herbert. They are works of the highest artistic excellence.' ( Kerry Evening Post , Wednesday 28 August 1861).
On Thursday 29th August, the morning of her departure, Queen Victoria visited Muckross Abbey, a fifteenth century Franciscan friary within the Muckross demesne. Eleanor, the eldest Herbert daughter described this visit as having been, 'very quiet, hardly any of the suite with us, they were all enchanted and wandered over it gathering ferns and leaves as recollections. She is to have ivy from the Abbey and ferns from various places sent to Osborne as recollections of this place.'
Before departing from Muckross, the Queen sent for Mrs Mary Herbert and presented her with a bracelet of gold, pearls and diamonds. Her daughters, Eleanor and Blanche, also each received a piece of jewellery. The Royal Collection at Windsor Castle contains three water-colours by Mary Herbert. Presumably Mary presented these to the Queen on her departure. At noon the Royal party left Muckross House for Killarney Railway station. There they boarded their train for Dublin, which they reached in just a little over five hours. Mr Miller, Chief engineer of the Great Southern and Western Railway drove the train both to and from Killarney.( Kerry Evening Post , Saturday 31 August 1861). The unstable financial situation of the Herberts in the late nineteenth century may have stemmed from the outlay involved in preparations for this Royal visit.
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Is this the last-known footage of Queen Victoria?
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This footage of Queen Victoria in Ireland is believed to be the clearest in existence.
Queen Victoria was born on the 24th of May 1819.
Footage of Queen Victoria’s final visit to Ireland in 1900 has been discovered by the New York-based Museum of Modern Art.
The footage features Queen Victoria - sometimes known as the ‘Famine Queen’ as she reigned throughout Ireland's Great Hunger - during her August 1900 visit to Ireland. She died only a few months after the visit in January 1901 at the age of 81.
The Museum of Modern Art, or MoMA, says that in 1939, it received “a treasure trove of 36 reels of 68mm nitrate prints and negatives made during cinema’s first years.
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“Everything that survives of the Biograph film company lives on those reels, including a rare bit of moving-image footage of Queen Victoria.”
Of the footage, Bryony Dixon, the silent film curator of the British Film Institute, told BBC : "I nearly fell off my chair because I'd never seen Victoria in close-up before.
"It is completely unique because you can see the Queen's face for the first time properly since 1900 since this was shown.. ... you can see her expressions, you can see her in movement, rather than just as a stiff portrait or a still photograph.
"It's very rare to see her smiling. She doesn't in any of her portraits, so it humanizes her, I think, for the first time."
A portrait of Queen Victoria (Getty Images)
Dixon added: "Queen Victoria was always very up to date with technology and she was interested in art.
"She was interested in photography in particular so here, instead of a posed photo or painting, we see her in movement."
Skip ahead to 1:58 for the footage of Queen Victoria in Ireland:
This article originally appeared on IrishCentral , in May 2019.
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Long-Lost Film Footage of Queen Victoria on Her Final Trip to Ireland Has Been Rediscovered
Queen Victoria's reign predated televised royal weddings and press conferences, but the British monarch did live long enough to see the advent of motion pictures. According to The Telegraph , the clip below, filmed one year before her death, is thought to be among the last footage ever recorded of the queen .
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City rediscovered the film in its archive of 68mm nitrate prints and negatives from early cinema history. The footage, captured during Queen Victoria's final trip to Ireland in 1900, shows a different side of the monarch than what she shared in her stoic portraits. She's wearing sunglasses and holding a parasol to protect herself from the sun, and when admirers come up to her, she greets them with a rare smile.
"In a moving image you get so much more, even something as brief as this, of the personality, of the presence of this woman," film curator Dave Kehr said in a video from MoMA.
Queen Victoria died in 1901, concluding what had been the longest reign of any British monarch at that point in history. Her great-great-granddaughter Queen Elizabeth II has since surpassed that achievement.
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Queen Victoria's Royal visit to Dublin, Ireland, 4th April - 26th April, 1900
L'Estrange, Robert Augustus Henry (1900) Queen Victoria's Royal visit to Dublin, Ireland, 4th April - 26th April, 1900. [Image]
College Green (Irish: Faiche an Choláiste) is a three-sided plaza in the centre of Dublin. On its northern side is a building known today as the Bank of Ireland which until 1800 was Ireland's Parliament House. To its east stands Trinity College Dublin. To its south stands a series of 19th-century buildings that are mostly banks. Streets leading onto College Green are Dame Street to the west, Grafton Street to the south, and Westmoreland Street to the north. College Green has been used as an assembly point for major political rallies.
Now aged 80, Queen Victoria paid her last visit to Dublin, on what was nicknamed the "Boer War Tour" as army recruitment was down and new blood to fight the war in South Africa was needed. The Catholic hierarchy opposed the visit. However, the public was delighted by a general holiday, and trams were "crammed to suffocation" according to reports.
From April 4 to 26, Victoria, two daughters plus grandchildren visited schools and hospitals. The spectacular Phoenix Park military review on The Fifteen Acres was watched by 200,000 people, and the park deer added their own march past.
Entry from Queen Victoria's Diary
"We had a perfectly smooth crossing, without the slightest motion, & I slept the greater part of the time. Came up on deck for tea. The Fleet left us just outside Holyhead. — I felt quite sorry that all was over, & that this eventful visit which created so much interest & excitement, had, like everything in this world, come to an end, though I own I am very tired & long for rest & quiet. I can never forget the really wild enthusiasm & affectionate loyalty displayed by all in Ireland & shall ever retain a most grateful remembrance of this warm hearted & sympathetic people. Even when I used to go round the ground in my pony chair & the people outside caught sight of me, they would at once & cheer & sing "God save the Queen". — "Thursday 26th April 1900
Peacock Hotel on right , College Green, Trinity College Dublin, God Bless our Queen banner in background , National Assurance Company building. Statue of William of Orange (William III) on College Green, erected in 1701. It was badly damaged in an explosion in 1928, and removed in 1929.
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Queen Victoria visited Ireland four times during her lengthy reign. The first, and perhaps most important, of these took place from the 2nd to the 12th of August 1849, in the later years of the Great Famine.
On the 2nd of August 1849, the young Queen Victoria arrived in Ireland, accompanied by her husband, Prince Albert. This was a time of gret turmoil in Ireland, as the people had been suffering through the horrors of the Great Famine which ravaged the country and decimated the population. British/Irish relations were tense. Though the famine was offically declared over by Westminster, there was still widespread poverty and starvation in Ireland where the Workhouses were filled far beyond max capacity. In spite of this the British monarch was well received and met with warmth. Victoria wrote in her diary of the cheering crowds that came out to meet her, the signs of ' Céad Míle Fáilte', and of the beauty of the Irish women, with their dark hair and good teeth.
During the 11 day tour, Victoria visited Dublin, Cork, and Belfast. In Cork she visited Cobh which was renamed Queenstown in her honour. It was to be the first of three successful visits for the British monarch.
Victoria's next visit to Ireland would be in 1853 , and the third on the 22nd of August 1861.
My great-great grandparents Mary Shea and James McCormack were maid and gardener in Queen Victoria's household. As a wedding present in 1853, the Queen gave them a plot of land in St. John's, Newfoundland on the Southside Hills. They settled there and generations of their descendants lived on that property.
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An inconvenient truth: Queen Victoria was welcomed by the Irish during the Famine
Why did the irish, who were starving and dying by the millions, stay silent.
In 1849, during the Great Famine, Queen Victoria traveled to Ireland for an 11-day visit to Cork, Dublin, and Belfast and, unbelievably, received a warm welcome by the Irish people.
Although an estimated one million people died from disease and starvation during this period, and more than a million had fled to America on coffin ships, Victoria was met with enthusiasm and cheering when she visited Ireland.
Author Paul Lynch, writing for the Irish Times , calls it “one of the inconvenient ironies of the Famine period.”
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In her diary, the young queen wrote of her travels. The citizens of Cork and Cobh (which she renamed “Queenstown” during her visit) “gave the royal party a rapturous welcome,” Lynch reports.
Queen Victoria wrote: “We drove through the principal streets; twice through some of them; that they were densely crowded, decorated… with flowers and triumphal arches…. that our reception was most enthusiastic and that everything went off to perfection, and was very well arranged.”
Illustration of an Irish family struggling during the Great Hunger.
“Cork is not all like an English town… the crowd is a noisy, excitable but a very good-natured one, running and pushing about, and laughing, talking and shrieking. The beauty of the women is very remarkable… such beautiful dark eyes and hair, and such fine teeth…”
In Dublin, “an immense multitude had assembled, who cheered most enthusiastically, the ships saluting and the bands playing and it was really very striking. It was a wonderful and striking scene, such masses of human beings, so enthusiastic, so excited, yet such perfect order maintained…. a never-to-be-forgotten scene; when one reflected how lately the country had been in open revolt and under martial law.”
The queen wrote: “the Mayor presented me with the keys with some appropriate words. At the last triumphal arch, a poor little dove was let down into my lap, with an olive branch round its neck, alive and very tame.”
The Freeman’s Journal referred to Dublin during the visit as “like a city rose from the dead.”
Cover of the novel 'Grace,' by Paul Lynch.
Lynch, who is the author of the novel Grace , about a 14-year-old girl growing up during the Famine, asks, why were the victims of the Famine silent about their suffering?
He writes: “The voices of the ordinary people who experienced those traumatic years went unheard. Those who survived did not speak of it. There is a rich folklore record of hand-me-down story that reveals broad truths. But there is little in the way of first-hand testimony from the ordinary man or woman. Why were they silent?”
“To answer that question, we have to ask, what did it mean to survive?”
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He adds: “The truth is that to survive an event of this magnitude, you might have had to connive, to lie and to steal. You might have had to turn a blind eye to your neighbour. You might have taken food from your children. You might have had to kill. Cannibalism – documented in every famine on human record – is something the Irish still do not want to address. Primo Levi in his memoir of Auschwitz said that ‘survivors are rarely heroes – in a world dominated by the law of survival, morality changes.’”
“To seek to understand the silence in the aftermath of the Famine is to enter a deep level of trauma. It is a place where the history books struggle to enter. Such is a place where the novelist steps in,” he concludes.
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On this day 169 years ago Queen Victoria landed on Ireland's famine-stricken soil
In 1849, during the Great Famine, Queen Victoria traveled to Ireland for an 11-day visit to Cork, Dublin, and Belfast and received a warm welcome by the Irish people.
In 1849, during the Great Famine, Queen Victoria traveled to Ireland for an 11-day visit to Ireland and received a surprisingly warm welcome by the Irish people.
Although an estimated one million people died from disease and starvation and over a million more had fled to America on coffin ships, Queen Victoria was met with enthusiasm and cheering crowds when she visited.
He reported that Queen Victoria “gave the royal party a rapturous welcome".
In her diary, the young queen at the time wrote about her travels:
“Cork is not all like an English town… the crowd is a noisy, excitable but a very good-natured one, running and pushing about, and laughing, talking and shrieking. The beauty of the women is very remarkable… such beautiful dark eyes and hair, and such fine teeth…”
Jump 169 years forward and people are remembering the historic day.
This day 169 years ago – 2 August 1849 – Queen Victoria arrived in Cove, Co. Cork, for a ten-day visit. In tribute, Cove was renamed 'Queenstown', though it was changed to 'Cobh' after Irish independence. Many banners read, “Hail Victoria, Ireland's hope and England's glory.” pic.twitter.com/98ghFBrTGy — This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) August 2, 2018
On this day 2 August in 1849 Queen Victoria first visited Cobh. She briefly disembarked and renamed it Queenstown to honour it as the spot where she first set foot on Irish soil. #Irishhistory #royalfamily #QueenVictoria #Cobh #Cork #Ireland pic.twitter.com/mTrZnWgKeR — SpikeIslandCork (@SpikeIslandCork) August 2, 2018
@ClarenceHouse receiving a copy of a sketch of #spikeisland drawn by his GGG grandmother Queen Victoria during her visit to #Cobh in 1849. Presented by then Mayor County #Cork @DeclanHurley He was delighted to receive it having never seen it. A result for team Spike! @pure_cork pic.twitter.com/7T8Qimkn8b — SpikeIslandCork (@SpikeIslandCork) July 26, 2018
Throwback to Harbour Row, Cobh before the turn of the century. Cobh was known as "Queenstown" from 1894 until 1920, to commemorate a visit by Queen Victoria. pic.twitter.com/35NLzjtvG7 — Leading Edge Group (@LEGLean) June 14, 2018
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Queen Victoria.
A look back at the reign of one of england and ireland's greatest monarchs. his actions, sometimes controversial, have made him both a popular and unpopular figure with the irish people..
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Queen Victoria, one of the most iconic monarchs in British history, led an era of profound socio-political change in Ireland. His particularly eventful reign witnessed a deeply troubled period in Ireland, with the emergence of the Great Famine and the rise of the Irish nationalist movement… A look back at the reign of a divisive monarch in Ireland.
A look back at the reign of Queen Victoria
Victoria acceded to the throne at the age of 18 in 1837, inheriting an extensive kingdom that included many territories, including Ireland.
The Act of Union of 1801 formalized Ireland’s annexation to Great Britain, ushering in a new era of Anglo-Irish relations… often tense.
At this time, the English were imposing their hold on the Irish, while discriminating against them and making them live in squalor. They exploited Ireland’s resources to enrich themselves, while depriving them of many of their civil rights ( practices aimed mainly at Irish Catholics ).
The Great Famine of 1845-1852, caused by a blight epidemic that rotted potato fields, had a devastating effect on Ireland. Faced with a humanitarian crisis, Victoria made a personal donation of £2,000, a significant sum at the time, to help the starving Irish.
However, the government policies of the time exacerbated the suffering, prompting much criticism. Many experts believe that the British government of the time reacted “weakly” to Ireland’s state of emergency. Potentially deliberate inaction, which led to the mass deaths of hundreds of thousands of Irish people.
It is estimated that between 500,000 and 1 million Irish people died during this period.
Queen Victoria’s gift was not enough to help Ireland, even though it was considered a territory belonging to the British Empire…
Victoria visited Ireland four times during her reign, seeking to strengthen ties with the Irish population and ease existing tensions.
These visits were marked by grand ceremonies, and gave the Queen an insight into the reality of life in Ireland.
Anecdotally, the monarch was particularly sensitive to the wild beauty of Ireland… She is said to have fallen under the spell of a viewpoint in Killarney National Park. She was so taken with the panorama, overlooking the local lakes, that she even allowed her ladies-in-waiting to admire the view with her!
Since then, the panorama has become a tourist attraction: known as the “Ladies View “, it will forever bear the imprint of Queen Victoria!
Social and economic changes in Ireland during Victoria’s reign
Victoria’s reign saw Ireland modernize with the advent of industrialization. Urbanization has accelerated, with people moving from rural areas to cities in search of better economic opportunities.
These changes have redefined the Irish landscape, giving rise to new challenges and opportunities.
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During the Victorian era, the Irish nationalist movement gained in strength. Organizations like the Fenians and the Home Rule League were born, fighting for Irish autonomy.
Queen Victoria thus became a controversial figure for many Irish people. As a result, many Irish nationalists and anti-monarchists began to loudly proclaim their dislike of British interference in Irish affairs.
A true symbol of British power, Queen Victoria was highly heckled and criticized, with some calling for a call to arms to liberate Ireland from British and Victorian rule.
Queen Victoria’s legacy in Ireland
Although Queen Victoria is considered a great monarch by the British, she is not always unanimously supported in Ireland. Its impact on the Emerald Isle remains complex.
For some, his reign is synonymous with oppression and colonialism. For others, it symbolizes a period of progress and modernization. Despite the controversies, his reign left an indisputable mark on Irish history .
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In 1849, during the Great Famine, Queen Victoria traveled to Ireland for an 11-day visit to Cork, Dublin, and Belfast and received a warm welcome by the Irish people. Thu, 02 Aug, 2018 - 22:06
A true symbol of British power, Queen Victoria was highly heckled and criticized, with some calling for a call to arms to liberate Ireland from British and Victorian rule. Queen Victoria's legacy in Ireland. Although Queen Victoria is considered a great monarch by the British, she is not always unanimously supported in Ireland.
Below is a list of foreign visits made by Queen Victoria during her reign, which lasted from 1837 until 1901, giving the names of the places she stayed and any known reasons for her visit.. Despite being head of the British Empire, which included territory on all inhabited continents, Queen Victoria never travelled outside of Europe, only travelling as far north as Golspie, southwesterly as ...
A file detailing the fuss and the flurry for Queen Victoria's visit to Ireland in 1900 could prove sober reading to those planning her great great granddaughter's trip in May.
Learn about the life and reign of Queen Victoria, who ruled the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 and was also Empress of India. Find out about her family, marriage, children, achievements, legacy and more.
Queen Victoria's Commemoration Medal 1900 (Ireland), [1] more commonly referred to as the Visit to Ireland Medal 1900, was awarded to those members of the Irish Police Forces on duty at Queen Victoria's various engagements during her visit to Ireland in 1900. Film of the Queen's Dublin visit. Queen Victoria made a formal visit to Dublin between 3 and 27 April 1900.
Her reign of 63 years and seven months was longest in British royal history until Queen Elizabeth II broke the record in September 2015. Victoria holds a particularly controversial reputation in Ireland, where she is often dubbed 'The Famine Queen' for her perceived inaction during the potato blight of 1845-1849 - which left around one million Irish people dead and a further million or more ...