CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 13th January 2001
From: The RCB Library
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Map Catalogue Published
On Tuesday evening, in Christ Church Cathedral, the Archbishop of
Dublin will preside at the launch of A Catalogue of Maps of the Estates
of the Archbishops of Dublin, 1654-1850. The volume will be launched
by Dr John Andrews, formerly Associate Professor of Geography in Trinity
College, Dublin, who is the foremost authority on the history and
development of map making in Ireland.
The catalogue has been written by Dr Raymond Refaussé, Librarian and
Archivist of the Church of Ireland, and Ms Mary Clark, Dublin City
Archivist, and is prefaced by an introduction by Dr Raymond Gillespie,
Senior Lecturer in Modern History, NUI-Maynooth, which places the maps in
their historical context. An appendix, by Mr Ronnie Wallace, editor of the
forthcoming biographical succession list of the clergy of Dublin and
Glendalough, provides biographical information on the archbishops of the
period, and there is also an appendix of biographical details of the
surveyors who drew the maps. The text is illustrated with examples of the
maps and details from them in both black and white and colour.
The estates of the archbishops of Dublin were largely in Co. Dublin. In
the north of the county there were lands around Lusk, Portrane, Clonmethan
and Finglas, while in the south there were estates associated with the
episcopal palaces of St Sepulchure and Tallaght and around Rathcoole and
Clondalkin. As well the archbishops had lands in Cos Wicklow, Westmeath
and Cork, and properties in the city of Dublin.
It is hoped that the catalogue, which has been published by Four Courts
Press, will be of interest to historical geographers and to ecclesiastical
and local historians.
Tonight, in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, there will be an organ
recital presented jointly by the Royal Irish Academy of Music and
Cathedral Arts. The recitalist will be Naji Hakim, from the Church of the
Holy Trinity, Paris.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Bishop of Cork will visit Frankfield and
Marmullane while the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory will be in Myshall. At
the first Choral Eucharist of Hilary term in the Chapel of Trinity
College, Dublin, the address on the "On Music" will be given by
the Director of Music in Christ Church Cathedral, Mr Mark Duley. In St
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin there will be an Epiphany Carol Service at
3.15 pm.
On Tuesday evening at 8.00 pm Christ Church Cathedral Music Foundation
will present "A Victorian Parlour Evening" in aid of
the the purchase of the recently acquired Bechstein piano. The
performers will include Virginia Kerr, Michael Finlay, Andrew
Johnstone, Mark Duley and members of the Cathedrals Choirs. Details
may be had from the Music Secretary at Christ Church Cathedral.
The second in the series of lectures entitled "East Meets West:
Civilizations in Dialogue" will be held in the Ussher Theatre of
Trinity College, Dublin, on Thursday at 8.00 pm. The speaker will be Dr
Christine Morris of Trinity College, who will speak on "From Pyramids
to Palaces: Cultural Interaction between Crete and Egypt in the 2nd
Millennium BC".
Thursday is the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
when the Dean of Christ Church, the Very Revd John Paterson, will join the
Jesuit Community at Milltown Park for the Evening Office. On Friday night
in Christ Church Cathedral, Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise (Irish Guild of
the Church) and Pobal an Aifrinn will host an interdenominational service
of prayer and music . The service, which is entitled "I am the Way,
the Truth and the Life" will be conducted in Irish and the preacher
will be the Revd W.D. Boyd, a Presbyterian minister from Belfast.
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