Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1900 — How Prince Patrick Got His Name. [ARTICLE]

How Prince Patrick Got His Name.

The appointment of the Duke of Connaught to be commander-in-chief of Ireland recalls an incident which decided the Queen to give him the name of Ireland’s patron saint. When the Queen and Prince Albert visited Ireland In 1849 an old Indy in the crowd which Welcomed her majesty to Dublin exclaimed, as the carriage in which the Queen sat with her husband and elder children passed, “Oh, Queen, dear, make one of them dear children Prince Patrick, and all Ireland will die for you.” The hint was not forgotten, and when, a year later, the Queen's seventh child was born, he received the name of A thur Patrick Albert. The soldier prince was further connected with the Emerald Isle when lie was made Duke of Connaught.