The Church of Ireland Historical Centenaries Working Group will mark the centenary of the Easter Rising with an evening of engaging presentations by leading Irish historians, with an opportunity for discussion, in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Wednesday 17th February 2016.
From 8.00 pm on Friday 5 February, until 8.00 am the next morning, 10 staff members from the Dromore charity Via Wings will be sleeping rough in the town’s square.
The intimate setting of the parish church of St George & St Thomas’s in Dublin provided the perfect space for the “Hidden Pages from the 1916 Rising” seminar at which five presentations on little known archival sources were delivered by the archival curators responsible for them on Tuesday eventing.
The Raphoe Group of Parishes are holding a series of events next week as the Dioceses of Derry and Raphoe mark the end of their Year of Prayer and Preparation and look forward to their Year of Opportunity 2016.
The Standing Committee of the General Synod met on Tuesday 26th January 2016 in Church House, Dublin.
Last Sunday, 31st January 2016, Revd. Capt. Isaac Hanna was installed as the new Archdeacon of the Dioceses of Elphin and Ardagh at a service in the Cathedral Church of St. Mary the Virgin and St. John the Baptist, Sligo.
This weekend, the Christ Church, Culmore, Muff and St. Peter’s (CCCMSP) Group of Parishes will gather to celebrate and give thanks for the recent refurbishment of their Parish Centre, on the Culmore Road.
More than 220 charities will this weekend benefit from money raised during the 2015 Black Santa Sit–out on the steps of St Anne’s Cathedral.