Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from 'The Irish Times'
Saturday 21 October 2006
Swift Commemoration in St Patrick?s
The fifth Dublin Symposium on Jonathan Swift and the annual Swift Commemoration will take place in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, this weekend.
Today (Saturday) the Symposium will take place in the Deanery. Sponsored by the Cathedral and the Centre for Irish Studies at the Catholic University of America, the theme will be ?Swift?s Contexts?. There will be contributions on 'Swift and Women' from Louise Barnett of Rutgers University and on 'Swift and Science' from Frank Boyle of Fordham. Mary Shine Thompson from DCU will speak about ?Swift?s Childhoods? and Toby Barnard, from Oxford, will talk about John Lyon, a canon of St Patrick?s and protégé of Swift, who was one of the leading antiquarians of eighteenth century Ireland. The proceedings will be chaired by Professor Robert O?Mahony, from the Catholic University of America, and will conclude with a response from Alan Downie of Goldsmith?s College, London.
Tomorrow (Sunday) at Evensong the address at the Swift Commemoration will be given by Dr Philip O?Regan from the University of Limerick.
This evening (Saturday), at 8.15 pm, the re-opening of Whitechurch parish church, after renovation, will be celebrated by a performance by John Dexter Harmony of Will Todd?s Mass in Blue, a full scale jazz setting of the words of the Latin Mass. Whitechurch is one of a small group of churches, mostly in and around Dublin, which were designed in the early nineteenth century by the celebrated architect, John Semple. His distinctive style is noticeable in, among others, the parish churches of Rathmines, Kilternan and Donnybrook.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning RTE will televise a Harvest Service with the Sunday School Society of Ireland and children and leaders from parish Sunday schools in the Dioceses of Dublin & Glendalough. In Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the services will be sung by the Lassus Scholars while in the Chapel of Trinity College the preacher at the Sung Eucharist will be Canon John Bartlett, sometime Professor of Pastoral Theology. In Tybohine parish church, Frenchpark, where the rector is the Revd Arthur Barrett, there will be a Service of Morning Prayer and Graveside Commemoration as part of the annual Douglas Hyde Conference, and in the evening in Cashel Cathedral the Dean of Derry, Dr William Morton, will preach at the Harvest Festival Service.
The Archbishop of Armagh will be in Belfast tomorrow (Sunday) morning to preach at the 50th anniversary service of St Dorothea?s Church, Gilnahirk, where he was rector from 1966 to 1974, and in the evening he will give the address in Armagh Cathedral at the memorial service for Canon Reggie Kenny. On Tuesday he will preside for the last time at the Armagh Diocesan Synod.
The Bishop of Derry & Raphoe will be in St Ninian?s Church, Convoy, on Monday evening where he will institute the Revd David Griscome as Rector of Convoy, Monellan and Donaghmore. Mr Griscome is a former Dean of Elphin & Ardagh.
On Wednesday evening at 8 pm in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, the Hewson Memorial Organ Recital will be given by Guy Bovet, Professor at the Musikhochscule in Basel, who will play works by List, Bovet, Alain and Ravel.
The final ?I Believe? lunchtime talk in the present series will be given in St George & St Thomas? Church, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin, on Thursday when the speaker will be Sheik Hussein Halawa. In Trinity College Chapel he preacher at the annual ceremomy to open the academic year will be the Revd Richenda Leigh, Chaplain of London University and Sky News commentator.