CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 19 December 1998
Cork Register Published
Those with an historical or genealogical bent who are
anxiously scanning the shelves for a slightly different Christmas
stocking filler need look no further, for the Representative Church Body
Library has answered their prayers with the publication of another
volume in its parish register series.
The Register of the Parish of Holy Trinity, Cork,
1643-1669 is a record of those who were baptised, married and buried in,
historically, the most important parish church of the city of Cork. Holy
Trinity, better known as Christ Church, was a medieval foundation,
although the present building is an eighteenth century edifice, and, as
the attractive cover illustration admirably illustrates, was
strategically placed in the centre of the walled city. It was the church
of Cork Corporation where a succession of municipal officers, such as
John Baily, sheriff, and Esay Thomas, recorder, repaired for the
christian rites of passage, and was the parish church for leading Cork
families like the Hydes and St Legers. It also attracted members some of
the great families of Munster like the Boyles and the Inchiquins. It is,
therefore, an important source not only for genealogists but also for
historians of Cork and its locality and for that discreet but
influential body of historians who concern themselves with Ireland in
the seventeenth century.
The register has been edited by Dr Susan Hood,
Assistant Librarian and Archivist in the RCB Library, who has brought to
the publication not only the careful skills of the transcriber and
editor but also, through an enlightening introduction, the discipline of
an historian.
This is the fourth volume in the RCB Library's parish
register series. Its appearance completes the first objective of the
project which was, in continuance of the work of the long defunct Parish
Register Society of Dublin, to ensure that all the surviving pre-1650
registers were available in published form.
The Register of the Parish of Holy Trinity, Cork is
available from the RCB Library, Braemor Park, Churchtown, Dublin 14
(telephone 01-4923979; fax 01-4924770) at IR/STG £9.95 + £1 (postage packing)
or through bookshops.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast Morning Service
from Bangor Abbey, Co. Down, where the rector is the Revd Ronnie
Nesbitt. There will be a Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in St
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, for which tickets are not required, and in
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway where the blessing will be given
by the Bishop of Tuam and the Bishop of Galway. The annual ecumenical
Dublin Civic Carol Service will be held in St Ann's Church, Dawson
Street while in St John's Church, Sandymount there will be Carols by
Candlelight. Further afield the choristers of St Bartholomew's Church,
Dublin will perform in the Waterfront Hall, Belfast, while a concert of
Christmas music, including motets by Sweelinck and Poulenc, by the choir
of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin will be broadcast by the European
Broadcasting Union.
On Monday evening RTE FM3 will broadcast the Festival
of Nine Lessons and Carols from Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin and on
Christmas Eve RTE will broadcast the St Patrick's Cathedal carol service
which has become an integral part of the Dublin social scene. The choir
of St Ann's Church, Dublin singing carols in Dawson Street on Christmas
Eve between 11.00 am and 12.30 pm.
On Christmas Day, when by tradition the bishops
celebrate the Eucharist and preach in their diocsan cathedrals, RTE will
broadcast Morning Service form Blessington, Co. Wicklow, where the
rector is the Revd Nigel Dunne.
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