On 5 January 1902, a Maltese courtroom became the unlikely stage for a constitutional confrontation between colonial authority and cultural nationalism. However one would expect that the debucle would be over a legislation or taxation. No, this debate was about a song. More precisely, a newly composed Innu Malti that the British administration feared would turn a night at the theatre into a political act.

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