Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland notes from the Irish Times
Church of Ireland Historical Society to meet in Armagh
Today (Saturday) week, 19 May, the Church of Ireland Historical Society will hold its spring meeting in the Robinson Library in Armagh, where the theme of the meeting will be the history of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
The speakers will be three of the contributors to the forthcoming history of Christ Church. The first contribution will be from Mr Stuart Kinsella, who is research student in Trinity College, Dublin, and he will speak on the early history of the cathedral. He will be followed by Dr Barra Boydell, Senior Lecturer in Music in the National University, Maynooth, who will discuss the cathedral music. Dr Boydell's Music at Christ Church before 1800 - documents and selected anthems. appeared last year as part of the Christ Church documents series which is being published by Four Courts Press in association with the cathedral history. The final speaker will be Profesor Roger Stalley from the Department of the History of Art in Trinity who will consider the architecture of Christ Church. He is the editor of George Edmund Street and the Restoration of Christ Church Cathedral which will be published in July as the penultimate volume in the Christ Church Documents Series.
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. A History, edited by Dr Kenneth Milne, the Historiographer of the Church of Ireland, will be published by Four Courts Press and launched after a Patronal Festival Evensong in the Cathedral on Trinity Sunday, 18 June.
This evening (Saturday), at 8.00 pm, in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the Cathedral Choir, directed by Mark Duley, will give a concert in aid of the Mark Governey Appeal Fund.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, there will be a liturgical performance of Nicholas de Grigny's Missa Cunctipotens Genmitor Deus by David Lee, Professor of Organ in the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and the Chapel Choir. At Evensong in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the Girls' Friendly Society will attend a Millennium Service of Thanksgiving at which the preacher will be the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey. In Roscommon parish church there will be a Festival Service which will include an organ recital by the Dean of Cashel, Dr Philip Knowles.
The clergy of the Dioceses of Cashel and Ossory will have their annual clerical conference in Clonlea, Co. Waterford from Monday until Wednesday. The theme of the conference is "Ministry" and the principal speaker will be the Archdeacon of Connor, the Ven. Alan Harper.
On Tuesday evening in the Chapel of St Columba's College, Co. Dublin, there will be a Millennium Lecture by the distinguished writer and theologian, the Revd Dr Gabriel Daly, who will speak on "Protestant Principle - Catholic Substance".
The General Synod Press Conference will be held in Belfast on Wednesday. In Cork, Roly the Clerical Clown begins a two day which will include visits to schools and hospitals and services in both St Fin Barre's Cathedral and the North Cathedral. The visit, which has been endorsed by both Bishops of Cork, is an initiative of the Diocesan Church Music Committee which is chaired by the Dean of Cork Dr Michael Jackson.
On Thursday evening the Archbishop of Dublin will visit Trinity College, Dublin, where he will the celebrant at the Sung Eucharist in the College Chapel. Later, in North Strand parish church he will institute the Revd William Black, formerly curate in St Ann's, Dublin, to the incumbency of Drumcondra and North Strand. The Annual General Meeting of the Friends of St Patrick's Cathedral will be held in the Packenham Hall at 8.00 pm.