Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Launch of St Patrick?s History Project
Tomorrow (Sunday) a collaborative project to write a new history of St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, will be launched at Evensong in the cathedral. The address will be given by Dr Derek Keene, Director of the Centre for the Study of Metropolitan History at the Institute of Historical Research in the University of London, and general editor of a new history of St Paul?s Cathedral, London, which is to be published by Yale University Press in April.
The new history of St Patrick?s will be edited by Canon John Crawford, a member of the cathedral chapter who has recently completed a doctoral thesis on the Church of Ireland in Dublin in the 19th century, and Dr Raymond Gillespie, who has been described as ?the most productive and innovative historian of religion in Ireland?. The history will have specialist sections on music by Dr Kerry Houston and Dr Alan Fletcher and on architecture by Professor Roger Stalley and Dr Michael O?Neill, while the sources for the history will be discussed by the Librarian and Archivist in the RCB Library, Dr Raymond Refaussé.
The medieval narrative will be written by Professor Howard Clarke and the early modern section by Dr Gillespie. The 18th century will be covered by Dr Toby Barnard and the Church of Ireland Historiographer, Dr Kenneth Milne, while Canon Crawford will deal with the 19th century. The Dean of St Patrick?s, Dr Robert MacCarthy, will write about the 20th century cathedral.
It is anticipated that the project may take up to three years and it is hoped to deliver the final script to the publisher, Four Courts Press, in the autumn of 2006.
Another bow in the direction of St Patrick?s glorious past will be made at Evensong on Tuesday when the Dean will unveil a memorial to the composer, Charles Villiers Stanford, who received much of his early musical training in the cathedral. The memorial is the work of sculptor, Ken Thompson.
Today (Saturday) in All Saints Parish Centre, University Street, Belfast, the Crosslinks missionary society will hold a promotion day to inform families about its summer youth camps.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning RTE will televise a Service of the Word from The Irish School of Ecumenics while on RTE radio there will be an Ecumenical Service of the Word from St Multose? Church, Kinsale, led by Canon David Williams. The Archbishop of Dublin will preach in the Chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge where he was a postgraduate student in the 1960s while in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the preacher in the series , ?On the Human Condition? will be Ekow Eshun, Director of the Bug Cultural Consultancy in London and a noted TV personality.
As the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity draws to a close the climax of the programme in Castleknock parish will be the visit of the Papal Nuncio, the Most Revd Giuseppe Lazzarotto, who will preach tomorrow (Sunday) morning. In the evening in Powerscourt Parish Church, Enniskerry, there will be an Area Service for Christian Unity Week with the Enniskerry Gospel Choir and special preacher, the Revd Kevin Dalton, Rector of Monkstown.
On Tuesday evening the guest speaker at the Marsh Society in the Church of Ireland Theological College will be Fr Peter McVerry SJ who has, for many years, been a champion of the homeless in Dublin. In St Brigid?s Parish Centre, Stillorgan, on Thursday evening, the final talk in the series, ?The Anglican Way ? Scripture, Tradition and Reason? will be given by Dr Andrew Pierce from The Irish School of Ecumenics.
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