CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 3 April 1999
From: The RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
Early Easter for Archbishop
Tomorrow (Sunday) the liturgical year reaches its climax when the
Resurrection is celebrated in churches and cathedrals throughout the
country. There will be an early start to Easter Day for the Archbishop
of Armagh, Dr Robin Eames, who will be the celebrant at the Annual Dawn
Holy Communion at the Argory, Co. Armagh. The service begins at 6.00 am
and later in the morning the Primate will preach in St Patrick's
Cathedral, Armagh.
The Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will preach in Christ
Church Cathedral, Dublin, where trumpets and timpani will join the
cathedral choir and organists at the Easter morning Eucharist.
The Bishop of Tuam, Dr Richard Henderson, will be in Galway where he
will preside, confirm and preach in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church.
In St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Dr Maurice Stewart, will preach
his last Easter sermon as Dean, and in the evening the cathedral choir
will sing the Easter music from Handel's Messiah.
The Eucharist for Easter Day will be broadcast from St Fin Barre's
Cathedral, Cork where the celebrant will be the Revd Edwin Hunter and
the preacher the Dean of Cork, Dr Michael Jackson.
On Thursday evening in Castletownshend, Co. Cork, there will be an
illustrated talk at Warren's Boathouse on "The Sinking of the
Lusitania". The speaker will be the historian and author, Patrick
O'Sullivan, and the proceeds will go to the St Barrahane's Roof
Restoration Fund.
The name of Canon J.B. Leslie is still well known in historical and
genealogical circles for despite his death in 1952 his legacy of
research into the lives and careers of the clergy of Church of Ireland
endures. Leslie, who was Rector of Kilsaran, Castlebellingham, from 1899
to 1951, devoted his life to the compilation of what he called
'biographical succession lists' of clergy. These took the form of
chronological lists of parish and cathedral clergy for each diocese,
appended to which were personal and professional details about each of
the clergy their antecedents, education, career, families and
descendants. Leslie had the good fortune to enjoy the resources of the
diocesan registries, cathedral muniment rooms and the Public Record
Office of Ireland before the archival holocaust of 1922 and much of the
information which he collected does not survive in any other source.
At the time of his death, Leslie had published nine volumes of
succession lists but much of his research remained unpublished in the
RCB Library and even that which had been printed was, in time, in need
of updating. In recent years the revision of his work on the clergy of
Connnor has been published as has an updated version of the succession
lists for the dioceses of Down and Dromore and these have proved to be
invaluable resources for the research community.
Now another volume in this series has appeared. Clergy of Derry and
Raphoe is a reprint of Leslie's long out of print succession lists of
Derry and Raphoe to which has been added new information to bring the
successions up to date. Canon Fred Fawcett, recently retired Rector of
Camus-juxta-Mourne (Derry) and Canon David Crooks, Rector of Taughboyne
(Raphoe) have been responsible for the new clerical information and for
providing photographs and pen portraits of all the churches. This
volume, like those for Connor and Down and Dromore, has been printed by
the Dundalgan Press (W. Tempest) in Dundalk, the firm which printed
Leslie's fist succession list, that for Armagh, in 1911. Clergy of Derry
and Raphoe is published by the Ulster Historical Foundation at £40 and
may be obtained direct from the UHF at Balmoral Buildings, 12 College
Square East, Belfast BT1 6DD or through bookshops.
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