Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Swift Symposium in Dublin
Next Friday afternoon the sixth Dublin Symposium on Swift in Ireland will begin in St Patrick’s Deanery and continue on the following Saturday. There will be lectures on ‘Swift’s Poetry’ by Claude Rawson (Yale Univ.), ‘Swift and Faulkner’ by James McLaverty (Keele Univ.) and on ‘Swift, St Patrick’s and Sermons’ by Toby Barnard (Hertford College, Oxford). Three panel discussions will consider Swift in Ireland, Swift and Irish Theatre, and Swift and Politics.
In St Patrick’s Cathedral, on Friday and Saturday, at 8pm, there will be performances of The Dreaming Dust, Denis Johnston’s play about Swift, and on Sunday 21 October the Annual Service in Commemoration of Jonathan Swift will be held in St Patrick’s where the address will be given by Dr Elizabeth Malcolm from the University of Melbourne.
Those who wish to register for the symposium may do so at e-mail or by telephoning 01-4539472.
This weekend a conference is being held in St Mary’s Cathedral, Tuam, marking the centenary of the birth of the Loughrea born missionary and Christian socialist, Bobby Burke. He is remembered for having run his farm in Toghermore as a cooperative, for his pioneering work in social housing, and for his 30 year period as a CMS missionary in Nigeria, Kenya and Yemen. Among the speakers will be the former General Secretary of CMSI, Canon Raymond Smith and former Labour MEP Barry Desmond.
This morning (Saturday) at 10.30 am members of the All-Ireland Council of the Mothers’ Union, who are meeting in Dublin Castle, will join in a special service in Christ Church Cathedral, where the Bishop of Tuam will dedicate a memorial plaque to Canon Norman Commiskey, General Chaplain of the Mothers’ Union, 1959-88, and his wife Florence, Honorayr General Treasurer, 1959-90.
Tomorrow morning the Archbishop of Armagh will preach at the Harvest Service in Rathfarnham parish church. At Evensong in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the Archbishop’s Certificates in Church Music will be presented while in Belfast Cathedral Bishop Tony Farquahar will preach at a service to mark the 50th anniversary of Fleming Fulton School. In St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, Canon George Cliffe, Rector of Fiddown, will be installed as Prebendary of Killamery while in Dublin, at 7pm, the Mageough Home will hold its Harvest Thanksgiving Service at which the preacher will be the Bishop of Cashel & Ossory.
The Armagh Diocesan Synod will be held on Tuesday while on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings the Dublin & Glendalough Diocesan Synod will be held in Taney Parish Centre. On Thursday the Cashel, Ossory & Ferns Diocesan Synod will take place in Wexford.
On Wednesday the Executive Committee of the Representative Church Body will meet in Dublin while in the evening, at 7 pm, in St Patrick’s Cathedral there will be an Organ Prom with Peter Barley with a tour by the cathedral’s supervisor, Gavin Woods.
At Evensong in the Chapel of Trinity College on Thursday the Archbishop of Dublin will commission the Revd Darren McCallig as Church of Ireland Chaplain. As part of its 75th anniversary celebrations the Church’s Ministry of Healing will hold a Service of Celebration and Thanksgiving in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, where the preacher will be Bro. David Jardine, Director of Divine Healing Ministries.
On Thursday evening the Archbishop of Dublin will chair the opening of a conference in Marsh’s Library of which he is chairman of the guardians. ‘A Mirror on the World’ commemorates the 1707 act of parliament which established the library as Ireland’s first public library.