Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 10 April 2010
Historical Society to Meet in Armagh
The Spring meeting of the Church of Ireland Historical Society will be held in the Public Library, Armagh (Robinson Library) on Saturday 24 April 2010. The library is located at the northwest entrance gate to the Church of Ireland cathedral.
The day begins with coffee and registration at 10.30 am and this will be followed by two papers in the morning session. Dr John McCafferty, Senior Lecturer in the UCD School of History & Archives, and Director of the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute, will speak on ‘Church of Ireland bishops, their biographers and the experience of revolution, 1656-1686.’ He is the author of The reconstruction of the Church of Ireland: Bishop Bramhall and the Laudian reforms 1633-1641 which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007. He will be followed by Mrs Rebecca Campion, who will present a research paper on ‘A study in material culture: interpreting the architectural projects of Frederick Hervey, the Earl Bishop’. Mrs Campion is a Cambridge graduate who is now working on the Earl Bishop for a PhD in NUI Maynooth.
The two speakers in the afternoon session are well known figures in the Church of Ireland. Andrew Johnstone, who is a Lecturer in Music in TCD will speak on ‘How Irish is the music of the Church of Ireland?’ Mr Johnstone has been successively assistant organist in St Patrick’s and Christ Church cathedrals, Dublin, and is co-editor with Gerard Gillen of A historical anthology of Irish church music published by Four Courts Press in 2001. The final contribution will be a discussion of ‘Edinburgh 1910 and its Irish implications.’ by the Revd Dr Ian Ellis, who’s doctoral research in Queen’s University, Belfast, was on Irish inter-church relations. Dr Ellis is Rector of Newcastle in the Diocese of Down, and editor of the Church of Ireland Gazette.
There will be an opportunity for members to renew their annual subscriptions, if they have not done so already. The annual subscription was fixed last November at £35 or €40 Non-members are most welcome. They are asked to subscribe £7 or €10 to assist with the expenses of the conference.
The Church of Ireland Historical Society meets twice a year: in Armagh in April and in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, in November. It exists to promote scholarly interest in the history of the Church and to facilitate publication.
This (Saturday) evening in St Macartan’s Cathedral, Clogher, there will be an ‘April Evening of Music and Song’ with Belle Voca and the Murley Silver Band.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning Cumann Gaelach Na hEaglaise will have a celebration of the Eucharist in Irish in the Chapel of the Church of Ireland College of Education, Rathmines, Dublin 6, at 8.30am. The services in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, will be sung by the choir of Oakham School.
On Monday morning the Archbishop of Dublin will preach at the Trinity Monday Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving in Trinity College Chapel and in the evening will attend the scholars and fellows dinner. Dr Neill was a Foundation Scholar in Hebrew and Oriental Languages in 1965. In Holy Trinity Church, Crosshaven, at 8pm, the Bishop of Cork will institute the Revd Isobel Jackson as incumbent of the Templebreedy group of parishes. Ms Jackson has been curate in the Lismore group of parishes since 2005.
The lunchtime recital in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, on Wednesday will be given by the bassoonist, Michael Dooley, who will play works by Telemann, Cullivan and Reicha.