Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 20 November 2010
Church of Ireland Historical Society Meets in Dublin
Today the Church of Ireland Historical Society meets in the Chapter House of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
In the morning session the UCD historian, Dr Tadgh O hAnnrachain, will speak on ‘ The Church of Ireland and the native Irish in the plantation of Ulster’ and he will be followed by Dr Mark Empey, a postdoctoral fellow in the UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland, who will read a paper on ‘Challenging Stereotypes: the Protestant contribution to Gaelic culture in the seventeenth century’. After lunch, the educational historian, Dr Susan Parkes, will talk about sources for the history of Irish education in the nineteenth century and Eimhim Walsh, a postgraduate student in TCD who is involved with DUFEM, will speak on the Church of Ireland in China.
The meeting begins with coffee and registration at 10.30am. Queries concerning the Society may be addressed to the Hon. Secretary, the Revd Dr Adrian Empey by email.
The Bishop of Down & Dromore, in his role as a vice president of Tearfund, and the Rector of Cregagh, the Revd Jonathan Pierce, as a representative of the Bishops’ Appeal Fund, are part of a group on a ten day visit to Cambodia. The Bishop will be posting his thoughts on www.bishopharold.blogspot.com and he may be followed at twitter.com/bishopharold.
This morning (Saturday) the Monkstown Missionary Union Annual Sale will be held in the Knox Hall while this evening (Saturday), as part of the Cashel Arts Fest, there will be a concert in Cashel Cathedral by the Irish Sopranos.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Archbishop of Dublin will dedicate a new stained glass window in Sandford parish church while in Trinity College Chapel Professor Brendan Kennelley will speak on ‘Virtue and Vice’ at the Choral Eucharist. At Evensong in St Patrick’s Cathedral there will be a commemoration of those who lost their lives on Irish ships during World War II while in Christ Church Cathedral, at 5pm, Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise will have a celebration of the Eucharist in Irish.
At 4pm the Walk of Light, sponsored by the Dublin Council of Churches, begins at Rathmines Roman Catholic Church. Seven denominations, including representatives from the Church of Ireland parishes of St Ann, St Stephen and St Bartholomew , will take part in the walk which will conclude in Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church where the final prayer will be led by the Dublin Korean Church.
In St Andrew’s Church, Malahide, at 3pm tomorrow (Sunday) there will be a concert with the YDS Junior Strings and Young Dublin Symphonia, and at 8pm, in the Lady Chapel of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin the Gaudete Singers concert will feature works by Victoria and John Sheppard.
On Monday evening, at 8pm, in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute, Dr Alan Acheson will give a public lecture on ‘William Carleton and the Established Church’. At the same time in the same venue, Kieran Cronin, from Milltown Institute, will speak on ‘Ethics – the Christian tradition and human rights’. This has been arranged by the Dublin & Glendalough Theology Circle which welcomes all who are interested to their lectures.
On Thursday Canon Ian Ellis, Rector of Newcastle, Co. Down and editor of The Church of Ireland Gazette, will take part in an Awareness Foundation roundtable discussion on 'Faith and Multiculturalism' at the St Ethelburga Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in London. The Awareness Foundation promotes understanding among religions as a way of countering extremism and promoting peace.