Following the dedication of a statue to the Catholic politician Daniel O'Connell in Dublin, Protestant crowds in Belfast made a counter-demonstration, burned O'Connell in effigy, and assaulted people in the streets. These disturbances would erupt into full-scale rioting in Belfast with Protestants attacking Catholics and Catholics responding in kind. The riots were not brought under control for two weeks and there were multiple deaths and scores of injuries on both sides. (By John Osborne)
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Chronicle, The Annual Register or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1864 (London: F. & J. Rivington, 1865), 118-124.
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