drjohncharlesmcquaid

Consecration of Dr. John Charles McQuaid as Archbishop of Dublin in St. Mary's Pro Cathedral

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 4 older comments, and then…
• Swordscookie said:

  He was Archbishop from December 1940 to 1973 so this was either 1940 or early in 1941? A lot of prelates in this one.

• Sharon Corbet said:

  Swordscookie Wikipedia claims 27 December 1940.

• Sharon Corbet said:

  There is a description of the consecration in John Charles McQuaid: Ruler of Catholic Ireland by John Cooney. From that I think that the woman in the first row on the right (after all the clergy) is the then Lord Mayor of Dublin Kathleen Clarke.

• guliolopez said:

  Interesting to see the changes to the arrangement of the altar/sanctuary area following Vatican II. According to the Wikipedia article, the altar rails were removed in the 1970s, the wooden pulpit was moved elsewhere, and the reredos (the ornate wall/divider that the candles are standing on either side of the tabernacle) was removed entirely. www.flickr.com/photos/the_burninator/128998406/ Perhaps unsurprisingly, though undoubtedly there are more ladies further back the church, I recon it might almost be possible to count the females in this section of the congregation on one hand. (Made obvious by the expectation that men would remove their headwear - but women would retain theirs.) I'd concur with Sharon Corbet's suggestion that the foremost hat-wearing (and fur-wearing?) lady is the Lord Mayor...

• Sharon Corbet said:

  guliolopez Mink, according to John Cooney's book.