Word: arclight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wealth of bloom for the Eucharistic Congress." Another advt. said: "Enhance and prolong their stay by treating them to a night's rest on a 'Nelpha' mattress or bedstead." Dublin set up floodlights and searchlights, asked its citizens to help with electric lights and candles. An arclight, most powerful ever rigged up in Dublin, would write in the sky such inscriptions as "Hail the King-Adoremus-Laudamus Te." President Eamon de Valera's journal, The Irish Press, urged the Irish to plant trees in commemoration of this event, "one of the greatest ... in Irish history...
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