Irish Times Notes24 Nov 18

Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’

Swift Festival opens

The annual Jonathan Swift Festival in Dublin begins tomorrow (Sunday) with a Service of Commemoration at 3.15pm in St Patrick’s cathedral where the address will be given by Alice Leahy. On Thursday 29 November Dr Kerry Houston will direct a Swift Evensong in the Chapel of Trinity College at 5pm while in the Irish Emigration Museum an exhibition of Martyn Turner’s cartoons will be opened. The following Saturday, 1 December, will have the annual Swift Seminar in St Patrick’s Deanery and in the evening, at 8pm, New Dublin Voices will give a concert in the cathedral which will include a selection of pieces from Swift’s era. On a lighter note ‘Gulliver’s Fair and Market’ will be held in St Patrick’s Park on Sunday 2 December. This will be a special family fun day with food, craft stalls, circus workshops and live music.

Today (Saturday) Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise will host a lecture on Douglas Hyde by Professor Liam Mac Mathúna at 12.30pm in the Chapter House of Christ Church cathedral, Dublin. Refreshments will be available from 12noon. In the evening, at 8pm, in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the Mornington Singers will give a concert entitled ‘Libera Me’ – an evening of music on the intertwining themes of mortality and salvation, featuring Pizzetti’s Messa di Requiem and works by Parry, Howells and Tavener.

Georgian Day will be marked in Armagh with a series of events in St Patrick’s cathedral, the Armagh Robinson Library and the exhibition centre at 5 Vicar’s Hill. Among the events will be a silhouette cutter workshop, a Georgian keyboard lesson and a wax sealing and calligraphy workshop. There will be Choral Evensong in the cathedral at 5pm.

Tomorrow (Sunday) two new members of the joint Chapter of St Mary’s cathedral, Limerick, St Flannan’s cathedral, Killaloe, and St Brendan’s cathedral, Clonfert, will be installed in St Mary’s cathedral, Limerick, during Evensong at 4pm. Canon Liz Beasley, Rector of the Adare & Kilmallock group of parishes, will be installed as Chancellor and Canon Jim Stephens, Bishop’s Curate in the Tralee group of parishes, will be installed as Prebendary of Munchin and Tilloh. In St Patrick’s cathedral, Armagh, at 4.15pm, the Revd Dr Peter Thompson, the cathedral’s assistant organist, will give a recital of works which will mark both of the ending of the First World War, and of the death of Sir Hubert Parry with a selection of Parry’s chorale preludes on hymn tunes associated with remembrance, including St Anne, ‘O God our Help in Ages Past’, Eventide, ‘Abide with me’, and Rockingham.

The candle–lit film series at Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, will conclude on Monday at 6.30pm in the Music Room. Doors open at 6.15pm and no booking is required. The Farthest (2017) will be introduced by producers Clare Stronge and John Murray.

On Tuesday afternoon the Archbishop of Dublin will be in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute where he will speak on the theme ‘Vision for Anglican ordained ministry’ at a Continuing Ministerial Education session for the southern curates.

On Friday evening a Christmas Tree Festival hosted by St Finbarr’s church, Carrickmacross, will be opened. Working alongside Carrickmacross Chamber of Commerce the parish hopes to involve local schools, businesses and organisations. The festival will conclude on Sunday 2 December.

At midday on Saturday 1 December, the monthly Irish Language service in St Fin Barre’s cathedral, Cork, will mark the conclusion of Bliain na Gaeilge and the 80th anniversary of the institution of Douglas Hyde as the first President of Ireland.