Weatherday: The honorary citizen

Christian iconography in the Hunt Museum, Limerick.

Cloudy to start with scattered showers clearing through the morning. Sunny spells in the afternoon in breezy moderate to fresh winds from the east. Temperatures up to 20deg.

On this day in 1953, the library of Alfred Chester Beatty, containing his unique collection of oriental manuscripts, was opened in Dublin.

Headline: Sir Alfred Chester Beatty was the first person granted honorary citizenship of Ireland.

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