Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 23 April 2011
Sping Meeting of Historical Society
For those who are beginning to think beyond Easter, advance information is now available about the next meeting of the Church or Ireland Historical Society which will be held in the Public Library Armagh (Robinson Library) on Saturday 7 May, beginning at 10.30am.
In the morning session Dr Marie Therese Flanagan, Professor of Medieval History in Queen’s University, Belfast, will speak on ‘Episcopal culture in the twelfth-century Irish church.’ She will be followed by Ms Suzanne Forbes, a Ph D student in UCD whose talk will be ‘Publick and Solemn Acknowledgements: occasional days of prayer, fasting and thanksgiving in Ireland, 1689-1702.’ which was the subject of her COIHS Prize Essay in 2010.
After lunch Prof. Andrew Carpenter, now retired from the School of English in UCD, will talk about ’The verse in Marsh’s Library: sacred, secular, satirical, and (even) saucy.’ The final contribution will be from Mr George Woodman, a prominent Church of Ireland layman in Belfast, whose topic will be ‘An unlikely devotional ecumenist: Richard Mant and his translations from the Roman Breviary.’
There will be an opportunity for members to renew their annual subscriptions, if they have not done so already. The annual subscription is 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.
Queries may be addressed to the Revd Dr Adrian Empey at+353-1-4055056 or [email protected]
Tomorrow (Sunday) is Easter Day when by tradition the bishops preach in their diocesan cathedrals. This will be the first Easter morning on which the new Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Michael Jackson, will preach in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. The Bishop of Cashel & Ossory will join he members of the Church of Ireland Laois Youth Council for a Dawn Eucharist at 5.45am in the grounds of Stradbally Hall and later in the morning he will preach in St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny. Among the other bishops who have more than one diocesan cathedral, the Bishop of Cork, Cloyne & Ross will be in St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork, and the Bishop of Limerick & Killaloe will be in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick. This Easter both the diocese of Clogher and Tuam, Killala & Achonry will be without a bishop. Clogher is vacant following the translation of Dr Jackson to Dublin and although the Very Revd Patrick Rooke has been elected as Bishop of Tuam he has yet to be consecrated.
On Tuesday the final lecture in the current lunchtime series in City Hall, Dublin, on Dublin Parks will be given at 1.10pm. Dr Raymond Refaussé from the RCB Library will speak about Harold’s Cross Park and its links with St Patrick’s Cathedral. In the evening at 8pm in Belvedere House, Mullingar, there will be fundraising event in aid of St Bigseach’s church, Kilbixy. The architectural historian, Richard Hewlings, will speak on ‘The Originality of James Hoban’, designer of the White House.
The Church of Ireland Central Communications Board recently held a Communications Day in Dublin for those involved in Church of Ireland communications across the island including diocesan communications officers, magazine and website editors, and radio officers, the Press Office staff, and the Irish Language Officer of Cumman Gaelach Na hEaglaise. The day included discussion of ideas on the use of the internet, social media and emerging technologies, as well as the traditional means of printed word and radio and television broadcasting. The Director of Communications for the Anglican Communion Office, Mr Jan Butter, was the guest speaker.