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The Pope In Ireland - A Pictorial Record - A hardcover first edition of a pictorial souvenir publication, issued by Gill & Macmillan Ireland, 1979, of the visit of then pope John Paul II to Ireland earlier that year.
64pp, large format slim hardcover, with colour photography throughout - from Dublin, Limerick, Galway Drogheda, Knock and Maynooth.
Possibly the high tide point of popular Catholicism in Ireland, before the tide went out.
All the photographs are photojournalist quality , and show the enormous size of the occasion, particularly in the Phoenix Park.
