Irish Times Notes13 Sep 24

Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’

COIHS Meeting

The autumn meeting of the Church of Ireland Historical Society will be held on Saturday 28 September in Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, beginning with coffee and registration at 10.30am.

The morning session will open at 11am with ‘A brief introduction to the architectural inheritance of the Church of Ireland’ by Dr Michael O’Neill, author of ‘An Architectural History of the  Church of Ireland’ which was published last year by Church of Ireland Publishing’ and at 12noon Professor Naomi McAreavey, from the UCD School of English, Drama & Film, will peak on ‘Through the Flames: Protestant Witnesses and Fire Trauma in the 1641 Rebellion’.

Lunch will be available in the Music Room at a cost of £10/€10.

The afternoon session will begin at 2pm when Dr Danielle Clarke, Professor of Renaissance Literature in UCD, will talk on ‘Anne Southwell, and the Church of Ireland in Munster’. This will be followed by the concluding contribution from Dr Ian D’Alton who will consider ‘Old loyalties, new loyalties? – a southern Protestant searches for identity in history, lives and literatures.’ Dr D’Alton’s collection of essays –‘Southern Irish Protestants – Histories, Lives & Literatures: exploring minority identity’ – is due to be published by Eastwood Books.

Attendance at the conference is free to all paid–up members. Non–members can purchase a one–day membership for €10/£10. The annual subscription is fixed at €40/£40 (student rate £15/€15). This includes admission to the bi–annual conferences. Subscriptions may be paid on the membership section of the Society’s website: churchofirelandhist.org

Queries may be addressed to the honorary secretaries, Professor Alan Ford or Dr Miriam Moffitt, by email (secretary.coihs@gmail.com). Alternatively, you can visit the society’s website.

Next Thursday evening in St Nicholas’ Collegiate church, Galway, Dr Colman Ó Clabaigh OSB will launch ‘Reforming Gallway. Civic Society, Religious Change and St Nicholas’s Collegiate Church, 1550–1750’. The book is the work of the late and sorely missed, Professor Raymond Gillespie, and has been published by Four Courts Press.

The Dean of Christ  Church cathedral, Dublin, the Very Revd Dermot Dunne, has appointed a new Dean’s Vicar. The Revd Llewellyn–Macduff will take up her new role on Sunday when she will be officially licensed at a celebration of Choral Evensong at 3.30pm. A theology graduate of the University of Durham, she was ordained in the Canterbury Diocese of the Church of England in 2000 and currently serves as Associate Priest at Penshurst, Fordcombe and The Chiddingstones, a rural benefice encompassing three parishes in the diocese of Rochester, UK.

In the Diocese of Down the Revd Emma Rutherford will move from Storment to Belvoir and in the Diocese of Connor the Revd Stephen McElhinney, Mission Director of the South American Mission Society, is to be Vicar of Glenavy. In the Diocese of Clogher the Revd Bill Boyce, Vicar of St Andrew’s Majorca, in the Diocese of Europe, is to be the next Rector of Dromore.