Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 10 January 2009
Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise (the Irish Guild of the Church) recently held its Annual General Meeting when the following were elected to its Coiste (Committee): Dr Kenneth Milne, Rev Dr Eric Culbertson, Mrs Eileen McCracken, Mr Seathrún MacÉin, Mr Dáithí Ó Maolchoille and Mr Aonghus Dwane. Daithí Ó Maolchoille was re-elected as Hon. Treasurer and Aonghus Dwane was elected Hon. Secretary.
The Cumann aims to link its programme with the Irish language initiatives which have been centred around Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, in recent years, such as the Celtic Revival Summer School, the ‘Colmcille @ Christ Church’ festival and sung Evensong services in Irish. The Cumann announced that an interdenominational service in Irish would be held for Church Unity Week on 23 January, and a sung Evensong in Irish on 14 March. The Cumann holds Irish services twice monthly in Dublin and all are welcome to attend these. On the second Sunday of each month there is a Eucharist in the Chapel of the Church of Ireland College of Education, Rathmines, at 8.30am and on the fourth Sunday there is a Eucharist in Christ Church at 5pm.
Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise was founded in 1914 to bring together members of the Church of Ireland interested in Irish language and Gaelic culture, and to promote the Irish language within the Church of Ireland. Today, both members and friends of the Church of Ireland are involved in the Cumann. Further information on Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise's services and activities may be found on its webpage at www.dublin.anglican.org/resources/seirbhis_as_gaeilge.php. Further information may be had from the Hon.Secretary, Aonghus Dwane at 087-6232841
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Archbishop of Dublin will celebrate the Eucharist and preach in Monkstown parish church while the former Bishop of Connor, Dr Samuel Poyntz, returns to his old diocese to preach at the services in St John’s Church, Malone. At 3.15pm there will be Epiphany Carol Services in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, and St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh. In All Saints Church, Carnew, Co. Wicklow, the Choir of St Bartholomew’s Church, Dublin, directed by Fraser Wilson, will sing at a Service of Nine Lessons and Carols for the Feast of the Epiphany which will begin at 5.30pm.
The events to mark the 175th anniversary of the Oxford Movement continue next Monday when the Dearmer Society will host a lecture at 7pm. in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute, Braemor Park, Dublin. Canon Patrick Comerford, Director of Spiritual Formation at CITI, will speak on the topic, ‘The Anglo-Catholic Movement: more relevant today than ever?’ The Dearmer Society is a student society for ordinands interested in spiritual and liturgical formation, but Monday evening’s lecture is open to the general public.
The second volume of the correspondence of Edward Hincks, published by UCD Press, has recently appeared. Hincks, the Irish Assyriologist and decipherer of Mesopotamian cuneiform, was born in Cork in 1792. He had a brilliant undergraduate career in Trinity, was elected to fellowship in 1813 and was ordained two years later. He resigned his fellowship in 1819 and was appointed to the Trinity living of Ardtrea in Co. Tyrone. In 1825 he was appointed Rector of Killylea in Co. Down, where he remained until his death in 1866, and where most of the letters in this volume were written or received.
Volume one contained Hinck’s correspondence from 1850 to 1856 and this second volume continues the sequence up to 1860. The correspondence has been edited by Dr Kevin J. Cathcart, Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Languages in University College, Dublin.