Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 5 April 2008Finglas Vestry Book Launch
The third volume in the Representative Church Body Library’s Texts and Calendars series will be officially launched this afternoon (Saturday) in St Canice’s parish church, Finglas where the Rector of Finglas, Santry and Glasnevin, the Revd David Oxley, will preside. The principal speaker at the launch will be the Dublin City Archivist, Dr Mary Clark.
The vestry records of the united parishes of Finglas, St Margaret’s, Artane and the Ward, 1657-1758, edited by Dr Maighréad Ní Mhurchada, an acknowledged expert on the history of Fingal, is an edition of the vestry minute book of the parish of Finglas with an introduction, appendices and index. The volume contains, as well as the minutes of the vestry, the accounts of the churchwardens, lists of the parish cess, and records of baptisms, marriages and burials for the years 1658-84.
This book will be of interest to those concerned with the church, local communities and rural life in the early modern period and, in particular, to those who are interested in the local history of north County Dublin. It has been published by Four Courts Press at €55 and is available through bookshops.
This evening (Saturday) at 7.30 pm in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, ‘The Gospel of John’, a live performance from memory of the NIV text of the gospel, will be presented by the American actor Brad Sherrill. Since its premiere in 2000 ‘The Gospel of John’ has been performed off-Broadway and at venues throughout North America.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Bishop of Kilmore, the Rt Revd Ken Clarke, will be the celebrant at the Sung Eucharist in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dubin, while in Malta the Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Paul Colton, will preach in St Paul’s Anglican Pro-Cathedral in Valetta. The Lassus Scholars will sing the services in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. In the evening at 8pm there will be a recital in Whitechurch parish church, Dublin, by the Gaudette Singers, of Parry’s Songs of Farewell and of Rachmaninov’s Vespers, directed by David Leigh, Assistant Organist in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin.
The Chaplain of the Dublin Institute of Technology, the Revd Neal Phair, has arranged a public lecture on Monday evening at 7pm in the DIT in Aungier Street. The speaker will be Rosette Muzigo-Morrison, who has been a lawyer with the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and who is currently working with the Special Court for Sierra Leone. She will speak on ‘Justice for Victims of International Crimes’and the lecture will be chaired by the retired Supreme Court judge, Mrs Catherine McGuinness.
The Norwich School Band will give a lunchtime recital in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Wednesday and an afternoon concert in the cathedral precincts at 3.30pm.
On Friday afternoon President McAleese will open Aras na hOidhreachta, the new headquarters of the Heritage Council in Kilkenny. Better known to Church of Ireland people as the official residence of successive Bishops of Ossory since the fourteenth century the Palace was acquired as a permanent home for the Heritage Council in 2004 since when it has been undergoing substantial restoration. The building will be open to the public on Saturday 12 April from noon until 4pm.
On Friday evening at 7.30pm in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, there will be a table quiz to raise money for projects in Rwanda while in All Saints Church, Blackrock, at 8pm there will be a concert by the St Cecilia Singers in aid of the Heritage Windows Restoration Fund and the Blackrock Hospice.