Archive of the Month July 2015 – Table of Church of Ireland Parish Registers updated

TABLE OF CHURCH OF IRELAND PARISH REGISTERS THROUGHOUT IRELAND INCLUDING PRONI(Baptisms, Marriages, Burials & copies) Re–release of online list updated to account for original registers in PRONI, on Wednesday 1st July 2015 here: http://ireland.anglican.org/about/128 As promised a year ago in July 2014 when the RCB Library in Dublin presented a gift…

01 Jul 2015

A Visual Window to an Ecclesiastical World

A large audience gathered at the Irish Architectural Archive (IAA), on Merrion Square, on Tuesday evening for the launch of A Visual Window to an Ecclesiastical World – an exhibition of the Church of Ireland’s historical architectural drawings. The exhibition was launched by the Archbishop of Armagh, the Most Revd Dr…

09 May 2019

RCB Library, Dublin, Archive Of The Month July 2014 Table Of Church Of Ireland Parish Registers Throughout Ireland (Baptisms, Marriages, Burials & Copies)

Released online for the first time on Tuesday 1 July 2014 here:www.ireland.anglican.org/library/archive 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…

01 Jul 2014

Church of Ireland notes from the Irish Times

Dublin Cathedrals Exhibition On Thursday evening the Dublin City Manager, Mr John Fitzgerald, will officially open an exhibition in the Dublin Civic Museum dedicated to Dublin's three cathedrals. Entitled "Three Steps to Heaven" the exhibition seeks to illustrate aspects of the history, liturgy, events and personalities associated with Christ…

13 Jul 2002

Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’

Saturday 11 August  2012 Archives Awareness CampaignNext Thursday the Archives and Records Association Ireland, the professional body for archivists in Ireland, will launch its annual archives awareness campaign. Although the Church of Ireland is not specifically involved, the campaign presents an opportunity for the Church to reflect on its archival responsibilities and to assess how…

11 Aug 2012

Nine decades at the Representative Church Body Library

The year 2022 has seen the RCB Library through its 90th birthday, and a dedicated Archive of the Month for December explores its evolutionary story through nine decades and beyond. Just before Christmas 1931, Rosamond Stephen (1868–1952) founder and original librarian of the Irish Guild of Witness library,…

01 Dec 2022

CoI Gazette digitization

In 1916, the Church of Ireland Gazette wartime correspondent and editor, Ware B. Wells, was ‘probably at closer quarters with much of the fighting in the capital than any other civilian in Dublin’ getting ‘access to special sources of…

Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’

CALCA at St Paul’s Last month the annual meeting of CALCA, the Cathedral Archives, Libraries and Collections Association of Great Britain and Ireland was held in St Paul’s cathedral, London. This annual gathering of archivists, librarians, collections managers, conservators and cathedral clergy is a valuable opportunity not just to discuss…

15 Jul 2023

A Colour–coded Resource of What Survives; Where it is; & with Additional Information of Copies, Transcripts and Online Indexes

The List of Church of Ireland Parish Registers has again been extensively revised and updated, and in a collaborative project between the RCB Library and the Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS), it now includes live links to parish register sources – copies, transcripts and indexes –available…

01 Aug 2016

Finding archival homes for Church of Ireland primary school records

A Policy for the Appropriate Custody of Primary School Records is now in place to guide Church of Ireland primary schools and their Patrons in how to best keep and share archived information about their work and service to their communities, with the assistance of archivists in local authorities.

01 Dec 2022