Irish Times Notes04 Apr 25

Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’

Dialogue of Friendship

Booking is now open for this year’s Dialogue of Friendship event which will be held on Saturday, 17 May, 10.30am – 3.30pm at Dundrum Methodist Church, Dublin 14.

This year’s event, ‘Dialogue of Friendship: Listening Well to Build Communities’, is the third year of collaboration between the Church of Ireland Interfaith Working Group and the Sanctuary in Faith stream of Places of Sanctuary Ireland. The keynote speaker will be Dr Ebun Joseph, Special Rapporteur for the National Plan Against Racism. Other organisations presenting include Northern Ireland Interfaith Forum, Holocaust Education Ireland, Conversation Club (Waterford) and All Nations Ministries (Belfast). The event is free of charge but pre–booking at this link is essential. The working group reports to the General Synod through the Commission for Christian Unity and Dialogue.

The Friends of Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, are hosting a series of talks linked by the theme, ‘Time’ in the Chapter House at 2pm on Friday afternoons. Today (Friday), Hilary O’Kelly, from NCAD, will talk about ‘Fashion Essentials in History: Make–up, Hair and Underwear on Cathedral Monuments’. On Friday week Dr Stuart Kinsella, Research Advisor in Christ Church, will speak on ‘The Fleeting World. Changes & Chances at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin’.

The Spring meeting of the Church of Ireland Historical Society will be held in the Armagh Robinson Library on Saturday. The morning session will begin at 11am when Professor Alan Ford will speak on ‘St Patrick’s Purgatory in seventeenth–century Catholic and Protestant histories’. This will be followed by a talk on ‘The market cross of monastic origin: Armagh, Kells, Downpatrick and Clones’ by Ann Dolan, former senior conservation architect with the National Monuments Service of Ireland. The afternoon session will begin at 2pm when Dr Colin Armstrong, a visiting research scholar at Queen’s University, Belfast, will speak on ‘Scholarship and controversy in the nineteenth–century Church of Ireland: Edward Hincks of Killyleagh (1792–1866)’, and the final lecture, at 3pm, will be given by Dr Ida Milne, from Carlow College, on ‘The Elmes letters: a Wexford Protestant family at the heart of 1798, and in the longue durée’.

In St Mary’s cathedral, Limerick, on Thursday there will be a lunchtime recital at 1.15pm by soprano. Catherine O’Carroll. Admission is free.

The first book published by the Anglo–Catholic History Society in this 25th year of its existence is an exploration of the influence of the Oxford Movement and its successors on the Church of Ireland, with particular reference to a number of churches in it and to the two communities of sisters established in Dublin, neither of which has been chronicled before. Anglo–Catholicism and the Church of Ireland, by Michael Yelton, throws new light on many aspects of the life of the Church of Ireland which have largely been overlooked.

The cost is £17 or €20 inclusive of postage within the EU. Orders may be sent to Michael Yelton at [email protected]