speech / Corporation of Skinner's Alley

Regalia of the Corporation of Skinner's Alley. Copy of the Aldermen of Skinner's Alley 'Extract from the Speech delivered by Alderman Thomas Dooley, past Governor, at the Annual Celebration of the Birth of King William the Third, of Glorious, Pious and Immortal Memory, held on the 4th November 1867, in responding to the Toast 'The Aldermen of Skinner's Alley'. Printed for the members of the Society, by Waller, Suffolk Street, Dublin. The Aldermen of Skinner's Alley. This society traces its origins to the removal of the Protestant Aldermen fromt eh Corporation of Dublin in 1688 by James II. These men continued to meet in a house in Skinner's Alley until they were restored to office by William III, and in order to perpetuate the memory of these events they resolved to form themselves into a society under the title of the Aldermen of Skinner's Alley, uniting with them such other Protestant Dublin men as they were elected from time to time. The Society continued to exist as an extremist Orange body until the end of the 19th century.;