Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Communications Competition
The Central Communications Board’s annual Communications Competition is now open and invites entries for print media from Church of Ireland parishes, dioceses and affiliated organisations, in the following categories – Diocesan Magazine, Parish Magazine or Newsletter, and Church of Ireland affiliated organisation Magazine or Newsletter.
Quality of presentation, strength of content and outreach potential are once again to be the standards of excellence against which entries will be judged. Awards for the competition will be kindly sponsored by Ecclesiastical Insurance.
The Bishop of Meath & Kildare, the Most Revd Pat Storey, who chairs the Central Communications Board, remarked: “We are very grateful for all the creativity and hard work that goes into producing magazines and newsletters around our Church throughout the year.”
Entry forms for the competition may be obtained by emailing [email protected] or by calling 028/048 9082 8880. One recent copy must be sent in hard copy with a completed entry form to the Church of Ireland Press Office at Floor 2, 18–22 Hill Street, Belfast, BT1 2LA or Church of Ireland House, Church Avenue, Rathmines, Dublin 6, D06 CF67
The closing date is Friday, 11 April Winners will be announced with a presentation and awards event at this year’s General Synod, which is taking place in person in Naas 8 & 9th May. The CCB alternates the scope of its competitions each year between print, photography and online media.
On Monday and Tuesday the Archbishop of Dublin will be in Copenhagen where he will co–chair Porvoo meetings and on Thursday he will be in Jordan to co–chair a meeting of the Anglican–Lutheran International Commission on Unity and Mission in Amman.
In St Mary’s cathedral, Limerick, on Thursday at 1.15pm there will be a lunchtime recital by the ICO Academy.
The Church of Ireland Under the Stuarts, edited by Patrick Littke, is a new offering from Four Courts Press. It is a book of essays which showcases the scholarship not only of long established academics such as Toby Barnard and Alan Ford but also the work of younger researchers such as Jessica Cunningham, Mark Empey and Liam O’Rourke. Even a cursory perusal of the footnotes would emphasise the debt which the Church of Ireland owes to the scholarship of the late Professor Raymond Gillespie and so it is entirely appropriate that this volume has been dedicated to bis memory.
The Friends of Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, will host a series of talks linked by the theme,’ Time’. The lectures will be held Henry Roe Room in the Chapter House, at 2pm on Friday afternoons. The opening lecture, ‘How Napoleon I Changed our Vision of Time’ will be on Friday 28 March when Adrian Le Harivel, former Curator of British Art at the National Gallery of Ireland, who has a long interest in historic timepieces, reveals the role played by luxury clocks in promoting the political ambitions of the French Emperor.
Published in the Friday edition of The Irish Times