1. The two Barmaids, Miss Lydia Douce and Miss Mina Kennedy, watch the viceregal cavalcade

2. The Viceregal Palace was a drafty mass of ruins except for the wing that Foundation workmen had restored.

3. The Centralists, who were generally conservative, favoured a strong central government in the viceregal tradition, a paid national army, and Roman Catholicism as the exclusive religion

4. New standards and values were set up and the pomp and splendour of the viceregal court and the princes , which used to impress so much , suddenly appeared supremely ridiculous and vulgar and rather shameful , surrounded as they were by the poverty and misery of the people .