The first public Greek-Catholic presence in Ireland was during the 1932 Dublin Eucharistic Congress, when Bishop Nicholas (Charnetsky), then Apostolic Visitor and later Exarch in north-eastern Poland, western Belarus and Volyn visited Ireland at the invitation of the Redemptorists. Bishop Nicholas lodged for a fortnight in the guest-house of the Redemptoristine monastery on Saint Alphonsus Road and offered the Divine Liturgy in the monastery church each morning. On the second day of the Eucharistic Congress, Bishop Nicholas served a Pontifical Divine Liturgy for all the Congress participants in the Jesuit Church on Gardiner Street; an icon-screen was especially made and installed for this purpose with hand-painted icons (our best efforts to ascertain what eventually became of the icon-screen have not succeeded) and a choir directed by Paul Mailleux, S.J. (later Rector of the Pontifical Russian College in Rome) sang the Pontifical Liturgy in Church-Slavonic. Father (later Archbishop) Fulton J. Sheen of the United States was among the participating clergy.

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