Post election condition during 1932 in Dublin, Irish free State. A huge gathering outside a government building in Ireland. Eamon de-Valera is seen. William T. Cosgrave with another official comes out of the building. Police work through crowd in a line and control rioters and agitators.
A large number of automobiles parked in a field, crowd looking up at the sky during an airshow. Douglas Corrigan (famous for his wrong way flight from New York to Dublin, Ireland), standing with several girls in bath suits. A Piper J-3 Cub fitted with pontoons lands on a grassy field. Seversky EP-1 (civilian version of the military P-35 aircraft), with Jacqueline Cochran at the controls, taxis after winning the Bendix Trophy Race in 1938. Mr. Vincent Bendix congratulates Miss Cochran after winning the race. Several P-35s in different flight formations. Paratroopers jump from a ford tri-motor aircraft, views of paratroopers descending. Views of four aircrafts with smoke trailing, taking off and doing acrobatic stunts including inside and outside loops. Jacqueline Cochran at the controls of a Seversky EP-1 landing at Floyd Bennett Field, New York, completing a Trans-continental flight, after winning the Bendix Trophy race.
A panorama of the Irish countryside, sheep grazing. A map of Ireland is seen. Crowds, double decker buses, and vehicles on city streets of Belfast Northern Ireland. Statue of Lord Carson at Parliament. Activities in linen industry. Riveters and welders at work in a shipyard. Protestant Orangemen seen. A painting revering the King and Queen of England. Orangemen in dress costume in a July 12 annual parade celebrating victory at Battle of the Boyne. Custom officials on the Eire Northern Ireland border. Narrator talks about the recently independent Eireann and its people who are independent in thought and speech. Irish farmers with horse carts loaded head down a road. Farmers and business men talk in streets of Ireland and strike deals. Horses and carts among the men. An Irish boy standing with a group of sheep. Pastures and bucolic and scenic views of farms and villages in rural Ireland. Men and women spinning wool and weaving using traditional hand spinning wheels and traditional old loom methods.
Irish flag on an official Irish Government building. Irish Prime Minister Eamon de Valera working in office. Exterior of Fianna Fail-The Republican Party building in Ireland. Officials in a meeting, de Valera addressing. Pictures of important historic political leaders who struggled for independence of Ireland can be seen. Narrator discussing Ireland's decision to remain neutral in World War 2. A statue on the top of a building. Children filling water from a communal hand pump for a town. Views of country side, sheep grazing in Ireland
Ireland President honors Eisenhower in Ireland. The Aras an Uachtarain building. The President of Ireland Eamon de Valera and the former President Sean Thomas O'Kelly honor the former President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower at Aras an Uachtarain. Dignitaries interact. Photographers take photographs. The wives of the dignitaries interact.
View of forest and woods in Ireland. A Roman Catholic priest is seen visiting homes in a village, interior of a house, an old lady drinking tea from a cup together with the priest. Views of a cathedral and citizens gathering for church. Irish boys at entrance to church. View in chapel, priests on altar, people praying. Views of grounds of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth as Catholic clergy walk on a path of the seminary college. Seminary students of the priesthood in hallways and classrooms and library of Maynooth College (Main St, Collegeland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, W23 NX63, Ireland).