CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 6th May 2000
From: The RCB
Library
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Church of Ireland Historical Society to Meet in Armagh
Church of Ireland Historical Society to meet in Armagh
Today (Saturday) week, 19 May, the Church of Ireland Historical
Society will hold its spring meeting in the Robinson Library in Armagh,
where the theme of the meeting will be the history of Christ Church
Cathedral, Dublin.
The speakers will be three of the contributors to the forthcoming
history of Christ Church. The first contribution will be from Mr Stuart
Kinsella, who is research student in Trinity College, Dublin, and he
will speak on the early history of the cathedral. He will be followed by
Dr Barra Boydell, Senior Lecturer in Music in the National University,
Maynooth, who will discuss the cathedral music. Dr Boydell's Music at
Christ Church before 1800 - documents and selected anthems. appeared
last year as part of the Christ Church documents series which is being
published by Four Courts Press in association with the cathedral
history. The final speaker will be Profesor Roger Stalley from the
Department of the History of Art in Trinity who will consider the
architecture of Christ Church. He is the editor of George Edmund Street
and the Restoration of Christ Church Cathedral which will be published
in July as the penultimate volume in the Christ Church Documents Series.
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. A History, edited by Dr
Kenneth Milne, the Historiographer of the Church of Ireland, will be
published by Four Courts Press and launched after a Patronal Festival
Evensong in the Cathedral on Trinity Sunday, 18 June.
This evening (Saturday), at 8.00 pm, in Christ Church Cathedral,
Dublin, the Cathedral Choir, directed by Mark Duley, will give a concert
in aid of the Mark Governey Appeal Fund.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin,
there will be a liturgical performance of Nicholas de Grigny's Missa
Cunctipotens Genmitor Deus by David Lee, Professor of Organ in the Royal
Irish Academy of Music, and the Chapel Choir. At Evensong in St
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the Girls' Friendly Society will attend a
Millennium Service of Thanksgiving at which the preacher will be the
Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey. In Roscommon parish church there
will be a Festival Service which will include an organ recital by the
Dean of Cashel, Dr Philip Knowles.
The clergy of the Dioceses of Cashel and Ossory will have their
annual clerical conference in Clonlea, Co. Waterford from Monday until
Wednesday. The theme of the conference is "Ministry" and the
principal speaker will be the Archdeacon of Connor, the Ven. Alan
Harper.
On Tuesday evening in the Chapel of St Columba's College, Co. Dublin,
there will be a Millennium Lecture by the distinguished writer and
theologian, the Revd Dr Gabriel Daly, who will speak on "Protestant
Principle - Catholic Substance".
The General Synod Press Conference will be held in Belfast on
Wednesday. In Cork, Roly the Clerical Clown begins a two day which will
include visits to schools and hospitals and services in both St Fin
Barre's Cathedral and the North Cathedral. The visit, which has been
endorsed by both Bishops of Cork, is an initiative of the Diocesan
Church Music Committee which is chaired by the Dean of Cork Dr Michael
Jackson.
On Thursday evening the Archbishop of Dublin will visit Trinity
College, Dublin, where he will the celebrant at the Sung Eucharist in
the College Chapel. Later, in North Strand parish church he will
institute the Revd William Black, formerly curate in St Ann's, Dublin,
to the incumbency of Drumcondra and North Strand. The Annual General
Meeting of the Friends of St Patrick's Cathedral will be held in the
Packenham Hall at 8.00 pm.
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