“On the morning of the 21st January, in Vaughans Hotel on Parnell Square, a man named Tom McGuire elevated and turned the Sovereign Seal of Dáil Éireann, from the rising sun to the setting sun, from north to south and from east to west, and from Pagan to Christian to Sovereign; As in the 1916 Proclamation, claiming sovereignty over the elements, earth, air, fire and water and all there in and there of, on behalf of the Sovereign people and the Sovereign Republic of Éire.”
Inscription on the ‘sovereign seal of Dail Eireann’.
Irish Republican Brotherhood President, Billy McGuire (top centre and above) and party members at the Mansion House this morning protesting over a refusal to let the organisation use the Mansion House for the annual ‘turning of the seal of Dail Eireann’
Lord Mayor, Labour’s Oisin Quinn banned Mr McGuire, who is described as “Keeper of the Sovereign Seal”and IRB members from using the Mansion House dining room following an incident at an event in Wood Quay, Dublin last year.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
