CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 26 June 1999
From: The
RCB Library
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Elizabeth Bowen Centenary Celebration
On Friday evening in University College Cork, the Provost of Tuam,
the Very Revd Dr Robert MacCarthy, will open the Twentieth International
Summer School in Irish Studies which this year is devoted to celebrating
the life and work of the novelist, Elizabeth Bowen. Dr MacCarthy is one
of the trustees of Farahy church, near Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, where
there is an annual Elizabeth Bowen commemoration.
Among the speakers at the summer school will be academics Professor
Terence Brown from Trinity College, Dublin, Dr Heather Bryant Jordan
from Harvard, and Dr Hugh Haughton from the University of York. The
broadcaster Donnacha O Dulaing will speak on "Bowen and North
Cork", there will be a discussion of the film The Last September
with film director Deborah Warner, and there will be contributions from
the novelists John McGahern and Tom McCarthy. At the conclusion of the
summer school, on Sunday, 4 July, the annual Elizabeth Bowen
Commemoration will be held in St Colman's Church, Farahy. The address
will be given by Dr Hermione Lee, Goldsmith Professor of English
Literature in Oxford.
Today (Saturday) is the annual Gift Day in St Patrick's Cathedral,
Dublin, where the Dean-Elect, Dr Robert MacCarthy will be in residence
to receive contributions for the upkeep of the cathedral. In St
Matthias' Church, Killiney, there will be a concert of sacred and
secular music by the Chorus North Shore from Massachusettes, who will
also sing at the Morning Service in Christ Church, Dun Laoghaire,
tomorrow (Sunday) and in St Multose's Church, Kinsale, on Tuesday.
Tomorrow (Sunday) RTE will televise a service with the congregation
of Rathdowney parish in Co. Laois where the rector is the Archdeacon of
Ossory, the Ven. John Murray. The Bishop of Cork, the Rt. Revd Paul
Colton, will be in Carragaline where he will commission four young
people for summer work with CMSI in Kenya while the Bishop of Limerick,
the Rt. Revd Edward Darling, will preach at the Old Johnian Day School
Eucharist in St John's School, Leatherhead, Surrey. In Christ Church
Cathedral, Dublin, the Cathedral Choir will be joined by Christ Church
Baroque at the Sung Eucharist which will be Charpentier's "Messe
pour les trépasses". The annual Open Air Service will be held on
the Hill of Tara where the preacher will be the Rector of Drogheda, the
Revd Michael Graham, while in Clonmacnoise the Eucharist will be
celebrated in Templeconnor Church at 4.00 p.m.
In the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the Choir of Jesus College,
Oxford, will give a liturgical recital at 5.45 PM. They will also sing
Evensong in St Patrick's Cathedral on Monday and Tuesday and in Christ
Church on Wednesday. On Monday evening the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr
Walton Empey, will institute the Revd William Deverell to the incumbency
of Tallaght. Mr Deverell, who was ordained in 1992, has been Rector of
Sixmilecross in Co. Tyrone since 1995.
Tuesday will be St Peter's Day when the Bishop of Kilmore, the Rt.
Revd Michael Mayes, will ordain Noel Regan and Bill Stafford to the
diaconate in St Fethlimidh's Cathedral, Kilmore. In Christ Church
Cathedral, Dublin, there will be a celebration of the Eucharist to mark
the 40th anniversary of the ordination to the priesthood of the
Archbishop of Dublin. On Wednesday, in Castletownsend, Co. Cork, the St
Barrahane's Church Roof Fund will host an evening in Warren's Boathouse
where Professor Anne Crookshank will speak on "Irish Life as seen
through the Eyes of Irish Artists". The lunchtime organ recital in
St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, will be given by Peter Sweeney,
Professor of Organ at the DIT Conservatoire.
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