Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Saturday 20 May 2006
Aughrim Summer School
The annual Summer School located at Aughrim, Ballinalsoe, Co. Galway, close to the site of the battle of Aughrim, the decisive battle of the Williamite campaign in Ireland, will be held from 7 to 9 July.
This year the theme will be ?Shaping the Future of Ireland?. Among the speakers will be Andy Pollock, former Irish Times journalist and now Director of the Centre for Cross Border Studies; William Logan, Grand Master of the Royal Black Institution; and the Revd Earl Storey, Director of the Hard Gospel project which is a Church of Ireland programme to address sectarianism and difference. Mr Storey is also the author of Traditional roots. Towards an appropriate relationship between the Church of Ireland and the Orange Order which was published by Columba Press in 2002.
The Summer School, which is run under the auspices of the Christian Training Institute, was established in 1999 and one of its founders is the Rector of Aughrim, Canon Trevor Sullivan, who retains a close interest in the project. As part of the proceedings there will be a Service of Remembrance and Reconciliation in St Matthew?s Church, Clontuskart, which will be broadcast by RTE.
Further details of the Summer School are available from Nuala Cormican, Ballinalsloe Chamber of Commerce AT 09096 44460 or chamber - at - ballinasloe.com
Today (Saturday) a new series of lunchtime recitals begins in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, where the performer will be the NUI Maynooth pianist, Suzanne Mahon. The girls and men from the choir of St Bartholomew?s parish, Dublin, will sing Evensong in St Canice?s Cathedral, Kilkenny, and will also sing at the Sung Eucharist tomorrow (Sunday) morning when the setting will be Mozart in D.
Tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon the Friends of St Macartan?s Cathedral, Clogher, will hold their annual service at which the preacher will be the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr John Neill. The Bishop of Tuam, Dr Richard Henderson, will preside at the Girls? Friendly Society Service in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Killala, which will be attended by the Central President for England and Wales, Carol Gardiner.
On Monday evening the American ambassador to Ireland, His Excellency Mr James C. Kenny, will officially open the new exhibition in Marsh?s Library. ?The New World? is an exhibition of early printed books of exploration and discovery.
The second in a series of ?Gazette Questions & Answers on The Church, Society and the Media?, which is part of 150th anniversary celebrations of then Church of Ireland Gazette, will be held on Wednesday evening at the Carragaline Court Hotel, Cork. Inquiries should be addressed to the Dean of Cork, the Very Revd Michael Burrows. In St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, the third in the current series of organ recitals will be given at 6.30 pm by Robert Houssart, Assistant Director of Music at Gloucester Cathedral.
Thursday is Ascension Day when Church of Ireland House, Dublin, will be closed for business. In Christ Church Cathedral there will be a Sung Eucharist at 6 pm when the Cathedral Choir will sing Victoria?s Missa pro Victoria and Ave Maria while in St Patrick?s cathederal the girl?s Choir will sing at the Sung Eucharist at 5.45 pm. In St Mary?s Church, Castletownroche, Co. Cork, there will be a concert of sacred and secular music by the College of Clerks Choral featuring works by Tavener, Byrd, Tallis and Rachmaninov, with a retiring collection in aid of the Church Maintenance Fund.
On Friday there will be a lunchtime concert in St Canice?s Cathedral, Kilkenny given by the Laksevag Blandet Kor from Bergen in Norway.