An ‘Irish Paladin’

On 12 April 1960, a crowd of 200 people assembled on a cold, windy, rainy afternoon at the Royal School Dungannon in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The occasion was the rededication of a statue of one of the heroes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, John Nicholson. Brought to Northern Ireland two years earlier, the statue had stood in Delhi for over 50 years. The honor of unveiling the statue on its new site fell to the man who had been the last viceroy of British India, Lord Louis Mountbatten. In his remarks, Mountbatten said he ‘well remembered’ the statue when it stood outside the Kashmir Gate in Delhi. He praised Northern Ireland’s prime minister, Lord Brooke-borough, for his efforts in bringing the statue to Ulster, and concluded by stating ‘he hoped the statue would serve to remind coming generations of Britain’s great connection with India—a connection of which they could always be proud.’ 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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