CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 19 June 1999
From: The
RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
In recent years there has been a renewed focus on the Dublin
cathedrals but rather less attention has been paid to the parish
churches of Dublin and particularly those of the inner city. In part, to
redress this imbalance and to celebrate the cultural riches of these
buildings, the parishes which they serve, and the new uses to which some
of them have been put, the Representative
Church Body Library has arranged an exhibition. Entitled "The
Dublin City Churches Revisited", the exhibition will be opened in
the Dublin Civic Museum by the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, on
Friday evening.
The text of the exhibition is based on the well known book 'The
Dublin City Churches of the Church of Ireland', written by Maurice Craig
and the late Henry Wheeler and published by the APCK in 1948, and
additional text has been written to bring the story up to date. The text
is illustrated with archives, manuscripts, photographs, prints and
printed books from the collections of the Representative Church Body
Library, which is the library and principal archives of the Church of
Ireland.
"The Dublin City Churches Revisited" will run until the end
of September. The Dublin Civic Museum is located at 58 South William
Street (beside the Powerscourt Town House) and is open Tuesday-Saturday
10.00-6.00 and Sunday 11.00-2.00. Admission is free.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Bishop of Cork, the Rt. Revd Paul Colton, will
ordain Peter Massey and Daniel Nuzum to the diaconate and on Thursday
will raise the Revd Richard Dadswell to the priesthood. The Bishop of
Cashel and Ossory, the Rt. Revd John Neill will ordain Derek Sargent to
the diaconate on Thursday in Waterford Cathedral.
This evening (Saturday) the choir of King's College, Cambridge will
give a concert in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, while in St Colman's
Church, Farahy, the Vanburgh String Quartet will give a recital as part
of the celebrations to mark the centenary of the birth of the novelist,
Elizabeth Bowen. There will be a concert in St Mary's Church, Killarney,
by the Norrby Choir, Gothenberg, who will also sing on Monday evening in
St Patrick's Church, Greystones.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will broadcast Morning Service from Magherafelt
where the rector is the Revd Terence Scott while in Trinity College
Chapel there will be a Service of Thanksgiving for the work of the
Ireland Funds. The Bishop of Kilmore, the Rt. Revd Michael Mayes, will
preach at a service to commemorate the 150th anniversary of St
Augustine's Church, Swanlinbar while in Ballymoney Bishop Samuel Poyntz
will preach at a festival service to mark the 900th anniversary of the
foundation of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of
Jerusalem. In Dublin the annual St John's Ambulance Parade Service will
take place to Christ Church Cathedral while in St Patrick's there will
be Festival Evensong in connection with the Dublin International Organ
and Choral Festival. The Eucharist will be celebrated in Templeconnor
Church, Clonmacnoise, at 4.00 p.m. On Tuesday the Down and Dromore
Diocesan Synod will be held in Kilkeel parish hall.
The St Barrahane's Church Roof Restoration Fund will host an evening
in Warren's Boathouse, Castletownshend, on Wednesday. The architect, Sam
Stephenson, will give "An Irreverent View of Modern Art and
Architecture". As part of the Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Arts
programme there will be a special Evensong for the Feast of St John the
Baptist on Thursday. The Lay Vicars Choral will be joined by the Dublin
Viols in music by Orlando Gibbons. On Friday evening the Irish tenor,
Ronan Tynan, will give a recital in St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, in
aid of the on-going restoration of the cathedral.
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