Archive editions of the Church of Ireland Gazette, covering 1960 to 1969, are now available online alongside a further presentation in the ‘Borderless Church’ series from the Representative Church Body Library.
Responses to a request to help identify people and places in the RCB Library’s lantern slide collection have joined up historic street scenes with their locations in Belfast.
The Representative Church Body Library’s long–term project to digitize and make freely available the complete run of the Church’s all–island newspaper, the Church of Ireland Gazette (in print since 1856) is about to be fulfilled with the addition of the remaining decades from 1950 to 2009 to the existing online search engine.
Since most Irish bishops do not seem to have left much in the way of archives, when episcopal collections do turn up, it is significant because it opens a window to their lives and works.
Marking the 100th anniversary of the Belfast Riots, Prof Brian M Walker, Professor Emeritus of Irish Studies, Queen’s University Belfast, in collaboration with the Representative Church Body Library, Dublin, has produced a timely piece on the bridge–building contribution of one Church of Ireland cleric which is the online August Archive of the Month.
Throughout this week, we are highlighting five themes from our collections. Today, we finish at the Irish International Exhibition in Dublin in 1907.
Throughout this week, we are highlighting five themes from our collections. Today, we’ll be taking a tour of Palestine around 1912.
Throughout this week, we are highlighting five themes from our collections. Today, we focus on places.
Throughout this week, we are highlighting five themes from our collections. Today, we focus on missionary work in North India.
Throughout this week, we are highlighting five themes from our collections. Today, we focus on portraits.
