Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 21 March 2009
Cork Register Published
Tomorrow (Sunday) after Evensong in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral the Bishop of Cork will launch the twelfth volume in the Representative Church Body Library’s parish register series of publications. The Register of the Cathedral of St Fin Barre, Cork, 1753-1804 has been edited by Dr Alicia St Leger, the Cork historian, who is also a parishioner of St Fin Barre’s.
The original registers of St Fin Barre’s were destroyed in the fire in the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922 but, fortunately, they had been transcribed by the noted Cork antiquary, Richard Caulfield, and it is his transcription which is now published. Further more the churches in which the baptisms, marriages and burials, which were recorded in the registers, no longer exist. The medieval cathedral was replaced in 1753 by a new building in the Doric style and that in turn was replaced by William Burges’ masterpiece in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, a reminder of the eighteenth century cathedral is provided by the cover illustration of the book.
The register can be obtained from the St Fin Barre’s Cathedral shop and from the RCB Library (library @ireland.anglican.org) at €20 + postage.
Another important cathedral launch will take place on Thursday evening when the latest CD by the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, will be launched by Sir David Willcocks, the doyen of British choral music and a former Director of Music in King’s College, Cambridge. The CD consists of choral and organ music by Herbert Howells whose compositions have become a staple part of the Anglican musical repertoire. Howells, who held, among many other appointments, the King Edward Chair of Music at London University for 1954 to 1964, died in 1983. The Christ Church Choir, directed by Judy Martin and with Tristan Russcher at the organ, has already received favourable reviews for the performance on this disc which is on the Signum Classic Records label. The disc is available in the Christ Church Cathedral shop at €15.
Tomorrow (Sunday) a group of students from the Church of Ireland Theological Institute will appear on RTE’s Spirit Level programme to talk about their recent Lenten initiative (head shaving, hair dying and leg waxing) to support, through USPG, the St Francis Hospital in Zambia. At 3.30pm in St John’s Church, Clondalkin, the Dublin & Glendalough Discovery Ministry to the International Community will have a service for Mothering Sunday. The Revd Obinna Ulogwara is the Church of Ireland chaplain to the international community.
On Tuesday evening in St Finian’s Church, Cregagh, Belfast, there will be a special service of celebration to mark twenty years of weekly services by the Divine Healing Ministries, which is run by Bro, David Jardine. The preacher will be the Rector of Knocknagoney, Canon David Brown. At 8pm in St Mary’s Church, Killarney, there will be a concert by the Crook County Cadet Boychoir from Oregon.
The new Rector of Monkstown, Canon Patrick Lawrence, will be instituted by the Archbishop of Dublin on Wednesday evening. Canon Lawrence, who succeeds the Revd Kevin Dalton, has been Rector of Julianstown since 1998, Archdeacon of Meath & Kildare since 1997 and a canon of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, since 1999.
The final session in the Rathfarnham Eumanical Lent Series will be held on Thursday evening when the speakers on Leadership in Politics will be Irish Times journalist, Kathy Sheridan, and Green Party TD and Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan.