This day 42 years ago – 29 September 1979 – Pope John Paul II landed at Dublin Airport for a three-day visit to Ireland.
Later, he celebrated Mass in Phoenix Park. Approximately 1.25 million people were in attendance, at a time when fewer than five million lived on the island. pic.twitter.com/WOVaEKN6vn
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) September 29, 2021
1.25 million.
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Phoenix Park, Dublin.
The day after Pope John Paul II’s Papal Mass, September, 30 1979.
Earlier: The Great Multitude
Pics by Noel Robinson
Ballyfermot and St Mark’s Heritage
Thanks Ken Larkin and the Robinson Family
On this day in 1979, Eamonn Casey and Michael Cleary were the warmup act for Pope John Paul II in Ballybrit, Galway.
They wanted to bind us together.
He told us he loved us.
Good times.
Watch in full here.
Previously: Where Were You When We Were Getting High?
‘These particular popes led saintly lives’ says sky news lady… ‘Scuse me while I puke my fucking guts up..
— Sinead O’Connor (@VishnuRoom) April 27, 2014
I wonder will Jimmy Saville be made a saint next…
— Sinead O’Connor (@VishnuRoom) April 27, 2014
Sinéad O’Connor singing Bob Marley’s ‘War’ on Saturday Night Live in October 1992.
Pope John Paul II was ‘no saint but a man who covered up sin’ (Nick Squires, Daily Telegraph)
What Pope John Paul II could have learned from Sinéad O’Connor (Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Week)
TG4’s Pobal Ag Guí.
“I hope you like my new material.”
Remarkable, pew-shattering footage of seminarians in a fervour welcoming Pope John Paul II to Maynooth in 1979 (Scroll to the 10:30 mark).
On our knees.
At the Pope’s youth Mass in Ballybrit Racecourse, Galway.
Good times.
Thanks BrendanK