E - Eccles-street to Exhibitions
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EXHIBITION OF 1853.
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Exhibitions. [...] 1853. The great Industrial Exhibition was started by William Dargan, who placed £26,000 at the disposal of the Royal Dublin Society ; the buildings, designed by Sir John Benson, were erected on Leinster Lawn. It was visited by the Queen and Prince Consort.