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Huguenot Commemoration

Tomorrow (Sunday) at Evensong in St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, Professor Raymond Gillespie from Maynooth University, will give the address at the annual Huguenot Commemoration. His subject will be David Cossart who came to Dublin in 1670 and lived there for a decade. He lived a rather unexciting life untouched by the great events of the day but that makes him all the more important for the light he sheds on the ordinary life of the French Protestant community in seventeenth–century Dublin. This commemoration has been organized for some years in association with the Irish Section of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland and provides an opportunity to celebrate the contribution Huguenot refugees to the life of Ireland. Those interested in the Huguenot Society should contact the Honorary Secretary of the Irish Section, Mrs Elizabeth Bicker, at echohall@btinternet.com 

Today (Saturday) the Archbishop of Dublin will present a paper at the 11th Imam Hussian Conference in Milltown Hussiania Ahlul Bait. At 8pm. Dean Philip Knowles will introduce an evening of music and recitation including the ‘In Cantorum’ choral group, in St Mullin’s Church, Timolin, Co. Kildare. At the same time the Mornington Singers will give a concert in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, where they will sing Herbert Howell’s Requiem and Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir.

Tomorrow (Sunday) evening at 6pm there will be a Pipers’ Service in St Patrick’s cathedral, Armagh, as part of the William Kennedy Piping Festival while in St Macartan’s cathedral, Clogher, at 7pm the Revd Dr. Pat Mollan from Church’s Ministry of Healing will preach at a Service of Healing. In the Lady Chapel of St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, at 8pm, the Gaudete Singers, directed by David Leigh, will give a concert of works by Tallis, Byrd, Tomkins, Weelkes and Gibbon. Christ Church parish, in Lisburn, will begin the celebrations of its 175th anniversary with a service at which the preacher will be the Dean of Connor, the Very Revd Sam Wright.

On Monday evening at 6.30pm in the Music Room of Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, the third in a series of candlelit film evenings will be held. Dr Jennie Carlsten from the Film Department of Queen’s University, Belfast, will introduce The Handmaid’s Tale, a 1990 adaptation of the Margaret Atwood novel. In Holy Trinity church, Rathmines, the Archbishop of Dublin will institute the Revd Rob Jones as Rector of Rathmines & Harold’s Cross.

From next Tuesday to Wednesday, Canon Ian Ellis, rector of Newcastle, Co. Down, will represent the Church of Ireland at a Churches Together in Britain and Ireland work programme consultation at Missenden Abbey, Buckinghamshire. Canon Ellis chairs the Anglican and Ecumenical Affairs working group of the Church of Ireland’s Commission for Christian Unity and Dialogue.

On Wednesday the lunchtime concert at 1.15pm in St Mary’s cathedral, Limerick, will be given by cellist Zoe Stedje, accompanied by pianist Stuart O’Sullivan who will play music by Schumann and Lalo. Canon Patrick Comerford is the guest lecturer of the Irish Hellenic Society in the United Arts Club, Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin, at 7.30pm, when he will discuss ‘Sir Edward Law (1846–1908): the Irish Philhellene who rescued the Greek economy in the 1890s.’ Edward Law is buried in Athens and is commemorated in both a street name in the Greek capital and in a memorial plaque in St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin.

Armagh Robinson Library will hold its fourth Rokeby Lecture at 7.30pm when Professor Ian Campbell Ross will speak on ‘Jonathan Swift at 350’, as part of Armagh’s Georgian Festival.

 

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