Philip McEvansoneya explains the iconography of the city’s splendid ceremonial carriage
On the 4 November 1791 an elaborate new vehicle, the State Coach of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, made its first appearance on the streets of the city (Figs 3 & 4). The occasion was a procession to celebrate an important annual event in the social and political calendar in Dublin, the birthday of William III. In the late 1780s and early 1790s this was not, it would seem, an occasion that was especially charged with sectarian tensions
