Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’
Historical Society Meeting in Armagh
The next meeting of the Church of Ireland Historical Society will be held in the Armagh Public Library on Saturday 23 April beginning withcoffee and registration at 10.30am.
In the morning session Valerie Adams, a former senior member of staff in PRONI and now the Librarian & Archivist in the Presbyterian Historical Society in Belfast, will speak on ‘Exploring Church of Ireland Records held in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland’. She will be followed by Ruairí Cullen, a doctoral student in Queen’s University, Belfast, who will give a research paper on ‘George T. Stokes and the oriental origins of Irish Christianity’.
After lunch Dr Jane McKee, formerly Senior Lecturer in French in the University of Ulster and Chair of the Irish Section of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain & Ireland, will speak on ‘Peter Drelincourt (1644–1722): his Huguenot background and early career in Ireland’. The final lecture will be given by Colin Armstrong, a visiting research associate at the School of History & Anthropology in QUB, on ‘A Laudian in Ulster: the Irish career of Bishop Jeremy Taylor, 1658–67’.
Participants can register online at http://churchofirelandhist.org/membership/ Queries may be either addressed to the honorary secretary, Dr Adrian Empey, by email at [email protected] or visit the society’s website: http://churchofirelandhist.org/
This morning (Saturday) the Cork, Cloyne & Ross Diocesan Mothers’ Union Service will be held in St Luke’s church, Douglas, where the preacher will be Canon Eithne Lynch. In the afternoon, at 3pm, the annual Thanksgiving Service & Gift Day of the Church’s Ministry of Healing will be held in St Michan’s church, Dublin, where the celebrant will be Canon David Gillespie and the preacher will be the Bishop of Tuam.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning the Bishop of Cork will preside at Choral Eucharist in St Fin Barre’s cathedral to commemorate the Easter Rising. The preacher will be the Archdeacon of Tuam, the Ven. Gary Hastings, and Cor Cuil Aodha, directed by Peader O Riada, will sing a setting of the Eucharist composed by Sean O Riada.
Tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon in St Anne’s cathedral, Belfast, there will be an ecumenical service at 3.30pm to mark the 75th anniversary of ‘The Blitz’. In St Patrick’s cathedral, Armagh, there will an organ recital at 4.15pm by Paul Mullen, Organist of St Patrick’s church, Greystones, and in St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, at 8pm David Leigh will continue with his series of organ recitals to mark the centenary of the death of Max Reger. At 5pm in St Macartan’s cathedral, Clogher, the Dean of Derry, Dr William Morton, will preach at the annual Friends’ Service while in Donegal parish church at 7.30pm Choral Evensong will be sung by the Leterkenny based ensemble, Gaudium Chamber Choir.
On Tuesday at lunchtime in St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin, the Revd Paul Arbuthnot, Sacrist in Westminster Abbey and former member of the cathedral choir, will speak on the 19th century music of St Patrick’s. In Clonakilty the Bishop of Cork will institute the Revd Kingsley Sutton to the Kilgariffe union of parishes. Mr Sutton has, most recently, been Rector of Newry in the Diocese of Dromore.
In Belfast next Friday evening at 7.30pm Canon Giles Fraser will give a lecture as part of the bi–centenary celebrations of St George’s parish church. Canon Fraser, a former Church Times columnist, is well known for his contributions to BBC’s ‘Thought for the Day’ and for his column in The Guardian. He will speak on ‘Refugees – An Old Testament Perspective’.
Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’