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Restored 1920 silent film Ireland Will Be Free recalls the anguished debates among Australian Catholics over conscription and Irish independence, led by the legendary archbishop Daniel Mannix and his complex confidant John Wren
Fourteen Australian recipients of the highest Commonwealth military honour, the Victoria Cross, are mounted on grey charges. They lead the carriage of the Irish-born Archbishop of Melbourne, Daniel Mannix, along Bourke Street in Melbourne.
Around 10,000 first world war veterans and throngs of Catholic schoolboys march behind the procession while tens of thousands of Melburnians line the streets and cheer them on.
After violent anti-British sentiment voiced at 1918 St Patrick’s Day march, Melbourne council banned the parade in 1919.
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