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The Morpeth Roll, a singular testimonial signed by over 160,000 people in Ireland in 1841, is on display at the Naughton Gallery, Queen’s University, Belfast until next January 26.  The roll, which is 420 metres long, was created as a public tribute to George Howard, Lord Morpeth, on his 1841 departure from Ireland after six years as Chief Secretary.  A Liberal, he later served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. It is seen as a tribute both to his popularity and to the reforming Whig government which he served. Re-discovered in the archives of Castle Howard in Yorkshire it was conserved at NUI Maynooth and digitised for its wealth of pre-Famine information by ancestry.com

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