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Douglas Hyde remembered

All are invited to a Service of Holy Communion to remember the 80th anniversary of the inauguration of the first President of Ireland, Dr Douglas Hyde. The Service takes place in Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford, at 6.30pm tomorrow (Sunday). The celebrant will be the Revd Trevor Sargent.

The Service will be printed and conducted in Irish, with a parallel printed English translation. Douglas Hyde, whose father was a Church of Ireland Rector, was both a poet and an academic renowned for his love of Irish. He was a founder of the Gaelic League in 1893. In 1904, a Church of Ireland editorial supported the aims of the Gaelic League, saying: ‘If we insist upon our right to be recognised as Irish people we must be prepared to accept along with the honour conferred by the title the duties which it involves. One of these duties is the preservation of the historic Irish language’.

2018 marks the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Office of the President of Ireland. In 1938, Dr Douglas Hyde was inaugurated and he set a precedent which has been followed ever since by choosing to take his oath of office in the Irish language. Tomorrow (Sunday) at 6.30pm, the first monthly Irish language Service in the Cathedral will give thanks for the love of learning, love of people and love of language which Dr Hyde epitomised.

Yesterday (Friday) a Flower Festival in began in Taney parish and will continue until tomorrow (Sunday) with the theme ‘Reflections of Harvest in Dundrum’.

The Anglican Church in Hong Kong is celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the inauguration of the Province of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui. A Festival Eucharist will be held today (Saturday) which will be attended by worldwide representatives of the Anglican Church and other church leaders. Dublin University Far Eastern Mission will be represented by Dr Kerry Houston who will make a presentation to Archbishop Paul Kwong to mark this occasion. DUFEM has been nurturing and supporting links between the Church of Ireland and the Province of Hong Kong in the realms of education and clergy and student exchanges in recent years. Dr Houston will be attending a series of meetings to further develop these links.

Tomorrow (Sunday) the Bishop of Cork will preside at the Dedication Festival and Bicentenary Service in St Brendan’s church, Bantry, which marks the beginning of ‘a month of celebrations’ in the west Cork parish where the rector is Canon Paul Willoughby.

The second session in the ‘What’s the Story: Lives in Direct Provision’ will be held in the Music Room of Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, on Monday evening at 6.30pm.

The Dublin & Glendalough Retired Clerical Fellowship will meet in the Glenageary Parish Centre at 2.30pm. on Tuesday when the speaker is Canon Cecil Hyland, The officers this year are Canon John Clarke (Chairman), Dean Philip Knowles (Hon Sec.) the Revd Robert Kingston, (Hon. Treasurer) and the Ven. Gordon Linney (PRO). In the evening the Archbishop of Dublin will preside at the Dublin & Glendalough Diocesan Synod in Temple Carrig School, Greystones, and on Wednesday he will be in Estonia where he will attend and co–chair the Porvoo Consultation which continues in Tallinn until the following Sunday

The Revd Andrew Orr, Eco Congregation Ireland, and Lydia Monds, Bishops’ Appeal, have produced a video, ‘Caring for Creation’ which shows how the Church of Ireland’s Environmental Charter can assist with global thinking and local action. The video is available through the Church of Ireland website.

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