Weatherday: Panis Angelicus in the Phoenix Park

A corner of the Dining Room at Russborough House.

A bright fresh morning, getting cloudier through the afternoon.

Temperatures getting up to 19deg in moderate southerly breezes.

John Count McCormack, the celebrated Irish tenor, who was given his title by Pope Pius XI in recognition of his work for Catholic charities, died in Dublin on this day in 1945.

Headline: John Count McCormack sang the hymn to almost a million people in Dublin's Phoenix Park at the Eucharistic Congress in 1932.

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