The ‘State Prayers’ controversy in the Church of Ireland, 1948–1950, as revealed by the papers of Hugh Arthur Cornwallis [A.C.] Maude Esq (1904–1982)
A long running project to index the records of consents to alterations in churches has recently been completed in the RCB Library.
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 with surviving copies of same in Church of Ireland parishes the length and breadth of Ireland.
40,000 RCB Library records have now been catalogued and are available on–line through the Church of Ireland website.
Gender debates featured large at the General Synod of the Church of Ireland held 100 years ago in May 1914.
To mark the centenary of the Irish Guild of the Church – Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise – a piece will be broadcast this evening, Wednesday 30th April, on ‘Nuacht’ on TG4 at 7pm regarding the Guild’s materials kept safe at the RCB Library.
American academics Dr Keith Busby and Dr Brent Pitts have been drawing on Irish texts, The Red Book of Ossory and The Liber Niger respectively.
The papers of the Rt Revd William Shaw Kerr (1897–1960) who was bishop of Down and Dromore from 1945 to 1955, feature as April’s online Archive of the Month presented by the Church of Ireland RCB Library.