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Library & Archives Committee
The functions of the Library and Archives Committee are: to manage the Library and its resources having regard to trusts and objectives, to maintain archives and Church records generally (including records of contents of churches and of church plate), to co–operate with the Theological Insitute…
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See our stories and dig into the archives on Flickr
Our Flickr stream pictures life from around the Church, both nowaday and from our archives. Browse our albums for photos from all our dioceses and for themes across our mission and ministry today. Click right or left on the photos below to navigate each themed album. Serving our…
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Archive of the Month June 2015 – Yeats 150: Church of Ireland Archives Record Key Events of the Poet’s Life
Yeats2015 is a year–long event to celebrate nationally and internationally the life and work of William Butler Yeats, who was born 150 years ago on 13 June 1865. Entering into…
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‘Primary of Peace’ conference learns from archbishops’ archives
Many thanks to the guest speakers, attendees and staff at Armagh’s Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre for the successful Primacy of Peace conference organised by Armagh Robinson Library and the Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Library and Archive. The event, funded by the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, took place last…
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A Botanical Insight in the Archives
A short memoir of the life of Ellen Hutchins (1785–1815) who became Ireland’s first female botanist, which is in the custody of the Representative Church Body Library, has been digitized and made available online as the Library’s online February Archive of the Month presentation. Regarded as the first female field botanist…
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Yeats 150: Church of Ireland archives record key events of the poet’s life
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Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Saturday 3 January 2015 Focus on Church ArchivesThe January issue of the RCB Library’s ‘Archive of the Month’ (which may be viewed at http://ireland.anglican.org/about/128) concentrates, appropriately enough, on the role of the Library in preserving, cataloguing and making…
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Table of Church of Ireland Parish Registers throughout Ireland (Baptisms, Marriages, Burials & copies)
Released online for the first time on Tuesday 1st July 2014 here July’s Archive of the Month from the RCB Library is a gift to the genealogical community and follows months of painstaking work to amend, cross–check and update the list of original parish registers (baptisms, marriages and burials) together…
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Genealogy Links
In the event that you do not have a parish of origin, then please note that church registers will not be useful for your research. Unfortunately without precise location details (either a parish, townland, or the in the case of an urban centre, a street) we are unable to assist…
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Collections
Printed Books and PeriodicalsThe Library holds 70,000+ printed books, a large and varied collection of pamphlets and a selection of periodicals. The principal subject areas are ethics, theology, biblical studies, spirituality, homilitics, pastoralia, liturgy, mission, church history, comparative religion and religious biography. Items which are not available in the Library can…
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