WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR 5 MAY 2018

History THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 5 MAY 2018 AT 11AM 133 1930s Press photographs 35 black and white press photographs of events in Ireland in the 1930s including, IRA celebrates 1916 Rebellion, Eucharistic Congress, Visit of Prince of Wales to Belfast, Blue Shirts, Riots in Belfast, Opening of Stormont, Women throw stones at Guards in Fermoy etc.; together with extracts from an American ‘MidWeek Pictorial’, June 22 and Sept 23 1920, reporting the death of Terence McSwiney etc. Estimate €400-€600 approx (£350-£520 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 133 134 1932 Eucharistic Congress, choir-member’s silver medal and five various badges. An Irish silver medal, by P. Quinn & Co., in the form of the Congress emblem of a Celtic cross, the ring enamelled in blue with the text, ‘Congressus Eucharistic Internat Dublinensis’, on a blue silk poplin ribbon and silver suspension bar inscribed ‘Choir’; together with five gilt metal and enamel Eucharistic Congress badges, of varying sizes and finishes. (6) Spread over five days in June 1932, the 31st International Eucharistic Congress was the largest public event ever held in Ireland. Coming 1,500 years after the arrival of St. Patrick in Ireland, just ten years after Irish independence and in the first year of Fianna Fail’s first term in government, the stars were aligned over Roman Catholic Ireland. On the opening night of the Congress, midnight Mass was held in every church in Dublin, while the words ‘Adoramus’, ‘Laudamus’, ‘Glorificamus’ were beamed into the night sky in in sky writing. At the moment the Host was elevated the church bells rang and the beams of dozens of searchlights met at one point in the heavens and formed a perfect cone”. On the final day over a million souls attended Mass in the Phoenix Park, celebrated by Cardinal Lauri, the Papal Legate. Count John McCormack sang Panis Angelicus amplified by the most powerful public address system in the World. Estimate €200-€300 approx (£170-£260 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 134