Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 18 December 2010
150th Anniversary Celebrations in Nenagh
Tomorrow (Sunday) the 150th anniversary of the consecration of St Mary’s church, Nenagh, will be marked. On the exact anniversary of the consecration the Archbishop of Armagh will preside at an Advent Eucharist at 3pm with the Bishop of Limerick & Killaloe and the Rector of Nenagh, Canon Marie Rowley-Brooke.
St Mary’s church was consecrated on 19 December 1860 in the presence of the Bishop of Killaloe, Lord Riversdale. It replaced an earlier church in Kenyon Street which had become unfit for worship. The church was designed by the architect of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Joseph Welland, and his drawings for St Mary’s are preserved in the Representative Church Body Library. Tablets from the old Kenyon Street church were transferred to the new building and commemorate, among others, the Holmes family, once landlords of Nenagh, and the Finches of Kilcolman, one of whom, was Governor of Tipperary in the late 17th century. The east window is a memorial to the Revd James Hill Poe, Rector of Nenagh, who initiated the building of the new church.
Today, St Mary’s is a focal point for the local Church of Ireland community in Nenagh and the centre for a group of parishes which includes Templederry and Killodiernan
Today (Saturday) at 3.30pm there will be Ecumenical Community Carol Singing at Dublin’s Mansion House organized by the Dublin & Glendalough Diocesan Council for Mission and the Dublin Archdiocese. Among the participants will be the Lord Mayor, Eanna Ni Lamhna and Sr Stanslaus Kennedy. At 4.30pm there will be a Community Carol Service in the Courtyard of Marlay House, organized by the local parishes.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning RTE will broadcast a Service of Advent Readings, Reflections and Music with Canon Maureen Ryan. In St Michan’s church, Dublin, there will be a Service of Nine Lessons and Carols at 10.30am with the Hiberno Brass band while in place of Evensong in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, there will be a Service of Five Seasonal Lessons and Carols. In St Patrick’s Cathedral there will be a Service of Nine Lessons and Carols at 3.15pm, for which tickets are not required, while in St Brigid’s Cathedral, Kildare there will be a Carol Service at 3.30 pm with the Cathedral Choir. At 7pm in St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street, the Lord Mayor, the Archbishop of Dublin and RTE’s Bryan Dobson will be among the readers at the Civic Carol Service while in Co. Fermanagh the Murley Silver Band will accompany the Carol Service in St Macartan’s Cathedral, Clogher, and the Ballyreagh Silver Band will play at the Carol Service in St Macartin’s Cathedral, Enniskillen. In St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, there will be Carols for the City at 8pm.
On Monday evening at 8pm the Archbishop of Dublin will preside at the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols in Christ Church Cathedral and at the same time the Clerks Choral, directed by Ian Sexton, will sing in St Mary’s Collegiate Church, Youghal.
Ian Sexton will be at the piano, with singers Ryan Morgan and Nicholas McMurray, for seasonal music in Holy Trinity Church, Templebreedy, on Wednesday evening while at lunchtime Peter Barley will give an organ recital in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick.
On Christmas Eve RTE Radio 1 will broadcast live the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols from St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, to which admission is by ticket only. Later RTE will televise live Midnight Eucharist from the beautifully re-furbished St Stephen’s Church, Mount Street Crescent, Dublin. In Christ Church Cathedral the Archbishop of Dublin will be the celebrant and the Dean, the Very Revd Dermot Dunne, the preacher at the First Eucharist of the Nativity which begins at 11pm.