Reference code
IE CA CP/3/9/7
Title
Signed Menu Card for Cardinal John Joseph Glennon Reception
Date(s)
- 4 Mar. 1946 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
3 pp; Printed with manuscript additions
Name of creator
(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
A signed menu card for a reception marking the visit of Cardinal John Joseph Glennon to Áras an Uachtaráin in Dublin. The card is signed by Cardinal Glennon. It is also signed by Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh (Seán T. O’Kelly), the President of Ireland, and by his wife Phyllis Bean Úi Cheallaigh (Phyllis O’Kelly). The other signatures are those of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera, Seán Mac an tSaoi (Seán MacEntee), the Minister of Health, and Séamus Ó Riain (James Ryan), the Minister of Agriculture. Cardinal Glennon died five days later in Dublin (9 March 1946). His body lay in repose in All Hallows College (his old seminary) before being returned to the United States for burial in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis.