The 31st International Eucharistic Congress 1932

A short documentary made by the students of the MA in the History of the Media, UCD School of History and Archives.
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The 31st International Eucharistic Congress was held in Dublin in June 1932. Marking the high point of Catholicism in Ireland, the Congress symbolised the unity between Church and State.

[@voicemad]

So fabulous to hear the great John McCormack singing Panis Angelicus at this congress.

[@jennymabrey8964]

I have a holy water font of an angel with a cross and 1932 Eucharistic Congress imprinted on it. It was my grandmother's. A friend sang one of my mother's favorite songs, Panis Angelicus at her Memorial Service. So nice to hear it again song by a great man.

[@ad_am_t]

Thank you, helped with my RSR :-)

[@aaronmurphy8224]

how’d it go

[@user-eu8ub9cm5t]

A video of all Eucharistic Congresses needs to be made in order

[@TheOnlyKingNat]

pain in my fucking ass doing an essay on this

[@johnearly7087]

A friend, Peter Dolan, R.I.P., had some other film footage of this, which he showed to a few of us. What interested me most was that uncle Hugh Earley (1914-32) was in attendance there; he died later that year. G-D rest them all.

[@johnchacko1729]

Hi John, do u know if those footage still available somewhere?

[@hughandrews5]

Nephew???

[@johnearly7087]

@@hughandrews5 Hugh Earley was an uncle. I don't know to what you are referring.

[@costernocht]

Well done!

[@andriygriffin4782]

Very professionally made, good work!

[@johnking5174]

The protestant minority living in the 26 counties in 1932 watched this event, and felt uncomfortable, as the 26 counties was going to have it's social policy laid down from Rome and not from Dublin. Ireland's 26 counties replaced one monarchy for another. Kicked out the British and brought in the Vatican army instead

[@ciaranmckeon2364]

great video!

[@arturobzn]

Oh Ireland! What happened to you!!!

[@vestibulate]

Not so much as a whiff of a suspicion is expressed by the UCD scholars that anything worthy of criticism transpired in the Eucharistic Conference. The cementing of Church hegemony through a vast, coercive public ceremony supported by every institution of power in the state is viewed as an entirely benign, even progressive event. Commentary of this type represents a gross abdication of intellectual responsibility and a crude exercise in apologetics for a deeply oppressive right wing regime.

[@DustyAndPistolPete]

As opposed to Leo and Enda marching in the Gay pride parades, while children starve without homes on the streets of Dublin? Get off your high horse.

[@conlaiarla]

If you wish to look at " coercive" measures in any real sense of the word have a peep at N Ireland. You will certainly give real and compelling evidence of what happened to the non protestant minority there.

[@vestibulate]

@@conlaiarla Thanks for the whataboutery, but you failed to address any of the points I made. The truth is that Ireland was afflicted with two violent, coercive, authoritarian political systems, and neither should be used to deflect criticism from the other. This particular video depicted the Eucharistic Conference, and it's entirely proper to examine the social mechanisms that allowed the Catholic Church to wield such abusive, antidemocratic power in the Free State and subsequent republic. And those academics who see fit discuss the period without acknowledging the terrible impact of Church control over civil society should be held to account.