Last Thursday evening in St Patrick’s Deanery, the Church of Ireland Historiographer, Dr Kenneth Milne, launched the fifth volume in the RCB Library’s ‘Texts and Calendars’ series which is published by Four Courts Press.
The RCB Library, the repository for the Church’s written heritage, has recently acquired two important collections of papers, donated by Dr Alec Lyons.
The RCB Library has received a grant from the Esme Mitchell Trust to fund a pilot project to catalogue the Library’s extensive collections of 19th century architectural drawings of churches.
Duncan Scarlett, a parishioner of St George’s, Belfast, has written a book on Churches of the Church of Ireland Dedicated to St George.
In 2007, following the transfer and cataloguing of a substantial collection of diocesan materials relating to the Church of Ireland diocese of Kilmore to the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin, a completed catalogue list was published in full by the RCB Library.
The cataloguing staff in the RCB Library have not only met but exceeded their target for 2010.
A recent seminar organised by the Irish Landmark Trust has focused on the unique church of St Werburgh, its diverse history and architectural development in inner-city Dublin.