Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 31 July 2010
Carleton Summer School Meets in Clogher
The annual season of summer schools, when the great and the good decamp to various Irish rural locations to discuss aspects of the cultural and political state of the nation is well underway. Next Monday the 19th William Carleton Summer School, which considers the legacy of the Co. Tyrone born novelist and short story writer, begins at Corick House, Clogher, Co. Tyrone, and continues until Thursday. The Bishop of Clogher, Dr Michael Jackson, and his Roman Catholic counterpart are patrons of the school.
This year the Carleton Summer School has a strong Church of Ireland interest. On Tuesday the Summer School’s Director, Jack Johnston, will speak on ‘Squire Story’ which will discuss Carleton’s landlord, the Revd Dr John Benjamin Storey, who was Chancellor of St Macartan’s Cathedral, Clogher. Mr Johnston is a well known local historian who has written the history of St John’s church, Fivemiletown.
On Thursday, Dr Alan Acheson, a Church of Ireland historian and former Headmaster of Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, who is now domiciled in Canada, will give a paper on ‘Carleton, Caesar Otway and the Established Church’. The Revd Caesar Otway was the founder of the evangelical journal, The Christian Examiner and Church of Ireland Journal, which first appeared in 1825, and it was at Otway’s suggestion that Carleton began to contribute pieces to the Christian Examiner.
The key note address, ‘Should Historians still read Carleton?’ will be given by Professor Sean Connolly from Queen’s University, Belfast. From the Church of Ireland perspective the interest in Carleton stems from his conversion to Protestantism and from his short story writing which was published in the Christian Examiner and the Dublin University Magazine. In particular, his stories in the Christian Examiner, which became Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry, the work for which Carleton is best remembered, is now considered an essential source for the study of 19th century Ireland.
Today (Saturday) the organist of Circencester parish church will give a lunchtime recital in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, where the Circencester parish choir will sing the services this weekend.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Paul Colton, will preach at an ecumenical sevice in St Barrahane’s church, Castletownshend, to mark Castletownshend Maritime Week. At 3.30pm St Molua’s parish church will host the Magheracloone Annual Open Air Service while at 4pm in Templeconnor church, Clonmascnoise, there will be a Summer Service.
In St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, at 3.30pm there will be a memorial sevice for Nichola Lynas. The wife of the former Dean of Ossory, the Very Revd Norman Lynas, Mrs Lynas died suddenly in Bermuda where her husband had taken up the post of Canon Residentiary in the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Hamilton, last November.
On Tuesday evening in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh, there will be a concert by the Chamber Philamonia from Cologne, while on Wednesday there will be a lunchtime rectial in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin by Daniel Battle, Director of Music and Organist of All Saints church, Carshalton, Surrey.
The St Barrahane’s Church Festival of Music continues in Castletownsend, Co. Cork, on Thursday evening when the recital will be given by Fiachra Garvey (piano).
On Saturday 7 August the internationally renowned organ impresario, Carlo Curley, will give a recital in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, at 7.30pm. This recital will be in support of the cathedral’s music programme and tickets may be had from Christ Church at 01-677899. Further details are available at www.cccdub.ie.