The M1 from Belfast ends around Dungannon, a market and textile manufacturing town where the focus of interest for visitors is the glassware works of Tyrone Crystal (year-round tours). Dungannon was the chief seat of the O'' Neills from the fourteenth century until the plantation, and the first bible in Irish characters was produced here on a printing press established by Shane O'' Neill in about 1567. All trace of the O'' Neill castle on the hill has gone. The Royal School in Northland Row dates from the early seventeenth century. Its first headmaster died in the 1641 rebellion but the school reopened in 1662. The bronze statue in front of the present eighteenth-century building is ex-pupil General John Nicholson, killed storming Delhi during the Indian Mutiny (1857). The statue stood at the Kashmir Gate in Delhi until 1960. This same general pops up again in the market place in his home town of Lisburn, though the Dungannon bronze is nicer.
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