Fair_play_boy
03/05/2005, 11:17 PM
I am looking for a piece of Cork history, and would appreciate it if somebody could give me deffo info on it.
When she visited Cork in 1849, there was a famous newspaper story which referred to the Queen " . . . as she passed over Patrick's Bridge." Only, before the type setters printed the article, they replaced the letter "a" in "passed" with the letter "i".
This typographical lapse caused uproar. All sorts of theories abounded as to who had sabotaged the article.
My dad (since died) told me this story years ago. It sounds like something that an apprentice type setter could have done in rebel Cork, alright.
Anybody able to help? I want to include a photocopy of the article in a project I am doing for a visiting group for the 2005 thing.
By the way, Tuesday's Irish Examiner front page headline about the Lynndie England case was what reminded me about this. ;)
It read . . .
England Guilty
When she visited Cork in 1849, there was a famous newspaper story which referred to the Queen " . . . as she passed over Patrick's Bridge." Only, before the type setters printed the article, they replaced the letter "a" in "passed" with the letter "i".
This typographical lapse caused uproar. All sorts of theories abounded as to who had sabotaged the article.
My dad (since died) told me this story years ago. It sounds like something that an apprentice type setter could have done in rebel Cork, alright.
Anybody able to help? I want to include a photocopy of the article in a project I am doing for a visiting group for the 2005 thing.
By the way, Tuesday's Irish Examiner front page headline about the Lynndie England case was what reminded me about this. ;)
It read . . .
England Guilty