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Library and Property Teams of the RCB Celebrate Brigid 1500
In a commemorative collaboration between the Library and the Property Departments of the Representative Church Body marking Brigid 1500, three standalone online illustrated pieces capture aspects of St Brigid through archives, books and fabric. Ella Squire, Assistant Archivist RCB Library, tells the ecumenical and community story behind the restoration of St Brigid’s…
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St Brigid: A Powerful Focus of Unity
By Ella Squire, Assistant Archivist, RCB Library St Brigid is rooted in Irish culture most evident in the way her name is preserved throughout Ireland; “wherever the Irish people are, church, schools and convents bear her name” (Sherlock, 1896). The most ubiquitous being the 36 townlands named Kilbride. Since the medieval period,…
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‘Of the Cloth’ – free lunchtime lectures in Christ Church
A series of free lunchtime lectures will be held at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin this February on Tuesdays at 1.10pm. Entitled ‘Of the Cloth’, the series will examine all manner of ecclesiastical fabrics, from the dressing of altars to the robing of monks and clergy. Speakers will include the art…
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Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Black Santa in Dublin & Belfast On Monday the Archbishop of Dublin will preside at the launch of the annual Black Santa Appeal at St Ann’s church, Dawson Street where, until Christmas, the Rector of St Ann’s Canon Paul Arbuthnot, assisted by lay and clerical colleagues, will solicit contributions for local…
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Change in opening hours at RCB Library
From December, the RCB Library at Braemor Park, Dublin, is open on weekdays, Monday to Friday, from 10.00am to 12.30pm and from 1.30pm to 4.15pm. Please note the Library will close for Christmas 2023 at 12.30pm on Friday, 22nd December, and re–open on…
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Are Protestant comprehensives multiply invisible?
The Revd Professor Anne Lodge, who leads the Church of Ireland Centre at DCU, has presented new research into Protestant compreheneive schools, drawing on interviews and document archives, to tell their origin and contemporary stories and how their lived ethos is expressed. She was speaking at a recent seminar on this…
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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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Commemoration of the Life of Queen Elizabeth II
The Church of Ireland’s responses in the United Kingdom’s time of national mourning following the death of HM Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday, 8th September 2022. Statements of Tribute Archbishop John McDowell Archbishop Michael Jackson Bishop Paul…
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Unique record of turbulent Ireland from 1912 to 1923 now available to explore online
A further digitization project at the RCB Library – the Church of Ireland’s central library and repository for archives – sees a significant run of the ‘Record’ of the RCB Library’s founding benefactor, Rosamond Stephen (1868–1952)…
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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…
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