RCB Library Notes
BACK TO OUR PAST: RCB Library featured at national event
The RCB Library was promoted on a stand at Ireland’s first national genealogy and family/social history event.
The RCB Library was promoted on a stand at Ireland’s first national genealogy and family/social history event.
From Friday to Sunday this week, the RCB Library will be promoted at Ireland’s first national genealogy and family/social history event.
Speaking at the end of a one-day conference on religion and society in the diocese of Kilmore held at Cavan County Museum, the Bishop of Kilmore, the Rt. Revd Kenneth Clarke, commended the high-quality of lectures presented and interest they had generated amongst the audience.
As part of the Heritage Week programme in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the Librarian & Archivist in the RCB Library, Dr Raymond Refaussé, gave a lunchtime tour of the manuscripts which are on exhibition in the Treasury in the cathedral’s medieval crypt.
The remaining Church of Ireland parish records for Dublin City, County Kerry and County Carlow have now been added to the Irish Genealogy website.
The RCB Library will close for Christmas on Wednesday 23rd December at 5pm.
The following registers of Dublin parishes and chaplaincies have been transferred to the National Archives for digitization and will be unavailable to researchers for approximately four weeks
Some Dublin parish registers will be unavailable to researchers for approximately four weeks while they are digitized in the National Archives.
Mr Patrick Quinn, from Co. Galway has, through the good offices of the National Museum of Ireland, deposited on indefinite loan in the RCB Library, a notebook of the renowned Cork antiquary, Richard Caulfield (1823-87), who was Librarian of Queen’s College, Cork.