CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 21st April 2001
From: The RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
Launch of Christ Church Deeds Volume
On Tuesday in the crypt of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, there will be
a reception to mark the conclusion of the Christ Church history project and
the inauguration of its successor, Christ Church Publications. The guest
speaker will be the President of UCD, Dr Art Cosgrove.
Six years ago a small group of contributors came together to begin the
process which would lead to the publication of a history of Christ Church
Cathedral in the year 2000 and, as part of that process, to produce editions
of a number of the key sources. Christ Church Cathedral, A History,
edited by Dr Kenneth Milne, was duly published last year by Four Courts
Press, and, on Tuesday, the publication of the eighth and final volume in
the documents series, under the general editorship of Dr Raymond Gillespie,
will mark the conclusion of this project.
The final volume in the documents series is a new edition of the Christ
Church Deeds, edited by Dr Raymond Refaussé. Although the deeds were
destroyed in 1922 they survived, in an informational sense, in a published
calendar which contained a little over 1450 deeds, dating from the 12th
century to the beginning of the 17th century. The editor of the calendar,
M.J. McEnery, later to be Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, also
calendared a further tranche of deeds covering the period up to the end of
the 17th century but these were never published. The new edition reproduces
McEnery's calendar and adds to it the previously unpublished material. The
volume is a prime source for the history, not only of Christ Church but of
the city of Dublin and its environs for the medieval and early modern
period, while the superabundance of personal names suggests that this should
be a genealogical feast.
Tuesday will also see the launch of the first venture by Christ Church
Publications. Augustinians at Christ Church, edited by Stuart
Kinsella, is a booklet containing the texts of four talks which were given
in the cathedral's lunchtime lecture series. The contributors are the Very
Revd Dr Michael Jackson, Dr Sarah Preston, Dr Tadgh O'Keeffe and Dr Raymond
Gillespie. An introduction has been written by the Revd Dr Adrian Empey and
a preface by the Precentor of Christ Church, Canon John Bartlett.
Today (Saturday) the Church of Ireland Historical Society will meet in
Armagh. The principal papers will be given by the Revd Robin Roddie on
"Methodism and the Church of Ireland" and Professor Ian Green on
"Instruction and Piety in the Early Modern Church of Ireland". Dr
Susan Hood will make a presentation on her current project in the RCB
Library - the cataloguing of the Meath Diocesan Archives. In the evening, in
Christ Church, Londonderry, there will be an Organ and Choral Recital in aid
of the organ building fund.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the preacher at the Sung Eucharist in the
Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, will be Dr Francis Ford Poude, Professor
of Communications Theology in Notre Dame. In St George's Church, Belfast,
after the 11.00 am Eucharist there will be a presentation to Canon Dick
McDonald to mark the 60th anniversary of his ordination to the diaconate.
On Tuesday the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory, the Rt Revd John Neill, will
institute the Revd Peter Cole-Baker to the incumbency of Templemore. Mr
Cole-Baker was ordained in 1998 for the curacy of Ballywillan, Portrush. The
Bishop of Tuam, Dr Richard Henderson, will speak at the Derry and Raphoe
Clergy Conference will begins in Dunfanaghy on Tuesday and continues until
Thursday.
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