Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 12 April 2008
Church of Ireland Historical Society Meeting
Today week, Saturday 19 April, the Church of Ireland Historical Society will meet in the Robinson Library, Armagh, where the proceedings will begin with coffee and registration at 10.30 am.
There will be two papers in the morning session. Professor Stephen Taylor, Director of the Graduate School of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Eighteenth Century British History in the University of Reading will speak on ‘The Irish bishops and the survival of the Church of England’ and this will be followed by a paper on ‘Ecclesiastical tithes in medieval Ireland’ from Dr Charles Smith.
After lunch Professor Nial Osborough, Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence and Legal History in UCD will speak on ‘Tithe in Ireland: a tour d’horizon of the statute book from Henry VIII to Victoria’. The final lecture, on ‘A cloud of witnesses: scientific observation in the correspondence of James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, 1625-56’, will be given by Dr Elizabeth Boran, an IRCHSS Fellow in the TCD History Department.
The conference is open to all, although non-members will be asked for a subscription of €10/£7 towards expenses. Full details may be had from the Honorary Secretary, the Revd Dr Adrian Empey at +353-1-4999727 or [email protected] .
This morning (Saturday) the CMS Ireland Spring Sale will begin in the Kill o’ the Grange Parish Centre, Kill Lane, Blackrock, Dublin at 10.30 am. while in the evening, at 8pm, the renowned organ virtuoso, Dr Carol Williams, will give a recital in St Flannan’s Cathedral, Killaloe.
The RSCM Choral Festival will be held simultaneously in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin and in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast. Blainaid Murphy, Director of the Palestrina Choir, will conduct in Dublin while in Belfast the conductor will be the international organ recitalist, Gordon Blackburn. The theme this year is ‘Risen, Ascended, Glorified’. Rehearsals begin at 2pm and all are welcome to attend the closing services at 5pm when the Very Revd John Flatherty, Administrator of St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, will preach in Trinity while the Bishop of Connor will be the preacher in St Anne’s.
Tomorrow (Sunday) a Discovery Easter Praise Service will be held in St George & St Thomas’ Church, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin, at 3 pm. The preacher will be the Revd Clement Ninziza from Burundi and the music will be led by the Discovery Gospel Choir. In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, at 4.20 pm, the first in a series of organ recitals by David Leigh and Tristan Russcher, to mark the centenary of the birth of Olivier Messiaen will be held.
Christ Church Cathedral and St Patrick’s Cathedral will be two of the venues for the Dublin Handel Festival next week. On Tuesday evening at 8pm in Christ Church the choirs of both cathedrals, with the Orchestra of St Cecilia, will perform Dixit Dominus and on Wednesday there will be a lunchtime recital, ‘Arias at One’ in St Patrick’s. On Friday evening at 7.30 pm in Christ Church the Cathedral Choir, with the Orchestra of St Ceclia, will perform Messiah.
On Tuesday the Standing Committee of the General Synod and the Executive Committee of the Representative Church Body will meet in Dublin followed by a meeting of the House of Bishops which will continue on Wednesday.
The Hewitt School Chamber Choir from New York will visit Dublin where they will give a concert in St Stephen’s Church, Mount Street, on Wednesday evening at 7.30 pm, in aid of the Church Restoration Fund, and a lunchtime recital in Christ Church Cathedral on Thursday.