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Online Launch of The List of Church of Ireland Parish Registers
At a reception in St Audoen’s parish church, Dublin, at 6pm, Wednesday, 3rd August 2016, the Director of the National Archives, John McDonough, launched TheList of Church of Ireland Parish Registers: an online colour–coded resource featuring live links to other relevant online resources. The list accounts for all Church of Ireland parochial…
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Church of Ireland notes from “The Irish Times”
The Church & EuropeThe Church of Ireland belongs to a number of ecumenical bodies, and the benefits of membership include opportunities to share in, and contribute to the thinking of a wide range of Churches both in Ireland and elsewhere. One of these bodies is the Conference…
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The Irish Huguenot Archive
By Dr Raymond RefausséIn 1993 the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland entered into an agreement with the Representative Church Body to allow the RCB Library to host what was to be called the Irish Huguenot Archive. It was hoped that this new entity would develop as a…
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Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 7 August 2010Restoration of St James’ GraveyardOne of the most recurrent subjects for queries to the staff of the RCB Library and Church of Ireland House is graveyards, and in the case of the city of Dublin, the most enquired about graveyard is that of St…
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Parish Records
Many parish registers were destroyed in the fire in the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922. However the RCB Library now holds over 1,159 original collections of registers, many of them in the context of larger collections of parish registers. The definitive and colour–coded List of Church of…
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Illuminated address by renowned heraldic artist for a new dean of Christ Church Cathedral Dublin now available online (Article)
To view the illuminated address here. For July, we feature one of the more unusual and artistic pieces in the Representative Church Body Library’s collections. This is an illuminated address presented to the outgoing rector…
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Sermons of the Revd George Sealy
Last October, the RCB Library received a very welcome communication from Rosemary Kempshall in the UK, who wrote to say that she had in her possession a large volume of sermons written by the Revd George Sealy, a parochial cleric based in the diocese of Cork, from the late 18th and…
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Kilternan parish registers 1817–1900 transcribed and indexed: a new contribution from the Anglican Record Project
To view indexed transcripts click here. For the full list and onward links to all the parish registers digitized and available via the Church of Ireland website, click here
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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…
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The Irish Huguenot Archive
February’s Archive of the Month at the RCB Library showcases the Irish Huguenot Archive, and makes available online for the first time a detailed finding aid to its content. In 1993, the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland entered into an agreement with the…
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