The Peace Commemoration: at Dublin - Fireworks in Phoenix Park, 1856. Celebrating the end of the Crimean War in Ireland: 'brilliant scene around the Wellington [the programme promised:] "Grand pyrotechnic spectacle representing the last great attack on Sebastopol, with the blowing up of the magazines and works, &c, general conflagration, finishing with fountains of crystal fires and Roman candles, casting their dazzling balls in every direction, and a grand bombardment of aerial projectiles and fiery missiles, hand-grenades, pots de saucissons, and concluding with a magnific
The Peace Commemoration: at Dublin - Fireworks in Phoenix Park, 1856. Celebrating the end of the Crimean War in Ireland: 'brilliant scene around the Wellington [the programme promised:] "Grand pyrotechnic spectacle representing the last great attack on Sebastopol, with the blowing up of the magazines and works, &c, general conflagration, finishing with fountains of crystal fires and Roman candles, casting their dazzling balls in every direction, and a grand bombardment of aerial projectiles and fiery missiles, hand-grenades, pots de saucissons, and concluding with a magnificent flight of fifty rockets in the air at one instant, thereby causing a general feu-dejoie, which will literally illuminate the atmosphere for miles round in every direction"...The management of the firework display was confided to Mr. James Robinson, of the Polytechnic Museum, Grafton-street'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.
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