Irish Times Notes18 Mar 17

Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’

Spring Meeting of Historical Society

The Spring meeting of the Church of Ireland Historical Society will be held in the Armagh Robinson Library on  Saturday 1 April 2017 beginning with coffee and registration at 10.30am.

In the morning session Dr Coleman Dennehy, an Irish Research Council Fellow in University College, London, and UCD, will speak on ‘The spiritual benches in the seventeenth–century Irish House of Lords’. He will be followed by Ms Kathryn Sawyer, a doctoral student in the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, who will deliver the W.G. Neely Prize Winning Research Paper on ‘A “disorderly tumultuous way of serving God”: prayer and social order in Ireland, 1660–89’.

After lunch, Dr Patrick Little, from the History of Parliament Trust will speak on ‘Life after death: the Church of Ireland, 1647–1650’. The day will conclude with a presentation by Ms Barbara McCormack, Special Collections Librarian in Maynooth on ‘Treasures of the St Canice’s Cathedral Collection’. Ms McCormack has been cataloguing the St Canice’s library following its transfer from Kilkenny to Maynooth.

Intending participants can register online at http://churchofirelandhist.org/membership/ If you wish to join the annual subscription was fixed last November at €40/£35. Special student rates are available for just €15/£12. This includes admission to the bi–annual conferences, lunch, book discounts, and exclusive access to the Society’s podcasts. Non–members are welcome. They are asked to subscribe €10/£7 to assist with conference expenses. Queries may be either addressed to the honorary secretary, Dr Adrian Empey, by email at secretary.coihs@gmail.com or visit the society’s website: http://churchofirelandhist.org/

The Church of Ireland Historical Society meets twice a year: in the Armagh Robinson Library in April, and in Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, in November. It exists to promote scholarly interest in the history of the Church, and to facilitate publication.

Tomorrow (Sunday) morning Dr Mary McAleese will be the guest of honour in Christ Church cathedral, Waterford, where the cathedral bells, which have been silent for eighteen months due to repair, will again ring out across the city. In the afternoon in St Patrick’s cathedral, Armagh, there will be a ‘Come and Sing Evensong’ for choirs from across the diocese, arranged by the cathedral’s assistant organist, the Revd Dr Peter Thompson.

The series of candle–lit film evenings on the theme of ‘Sun Sea and Soil: Our Planet in the 21st Century’ continues in the Music Room of Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, on  Monday at 6.30pm. Symphony of the Soil, an artistic exploration of that miraculous substance, soil, will be introduced by Robert Moss, Green Communities Manager at An Taisce.

On Thursday evening in St Mary’s church, Julianstown, the Bishop of Meath & Kildare will introduce the Revd Roy Taylor in succession to the Revd Peter Rutherford who is now Rector of Kinsale.

The choristers of St Patrick’s Cathedral will be putting their voices behind Dublin & Glendalough’s Diocesan Refugee Housing Appeal with a special concert in the cathedral on Friday evening at 6.15 pm. The evening will feature the Cathedral Choristers with special guests, jazz singer/songwriter Suzanne Savage and Victoria Green on guitar.

Admission is free and there will be a retiring collection for the housing appeal which plans to raise €300,000 over three years to support a new housing and integration project being coordinated by the Irish Refugee Council.

While admission is free, advance registration is recommended. Reserve online for free by clicking: https://stpatrickscathedral.digitickets.co.uk/event/2125657?catID=6441&_ga=1.37691616.1722058316.1459531947

The Annual General Meeting of the Church Education Society will be held on Wednesday, 29th March 2017, at 4pm, in Church of Ireland House, Rathmines.