CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 18th August 2001
From: The RCB Library
Email: RCB Library
New Communications Director In Post
Hard on the heels of the announcement of the appointment of a Public
Relations Officer by Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, comes the news that
the new Director of Communications for the Church of Ireland, Mrs Janet
Maxwell, has taken up her post in Church of Ireland House, Dublin.
Mrs Maxwell will be a member of the senior management team in Church
House and will have executive responsibility for the Church's communications
strategy and for co-ordinating its public relations, media relations and
publishing activities. She will work closely with the Central Communications
Board and its subsidiary bodies, the Literature Committee, Broadcasting
Committee and Internet Committee. The Director of Communications will have
an all-Ireland role and will be supported by a Media Officer, who has yet to
be appointed, and who will be based in Belfast.
Mrs Maxwell is a native of Dungannon who read history in Trinity College,
Dublin, from where she subsequently graduated with an MBA in 1987. Since the
early 1990s she has worked in South Africa and has, most recently, been Head
of the School of Media and Performance at Technikon Natal, a national third
level institution, which she represented on the Journalism and Government
Communications Standards Generating Bodies. Mrs Maxwell also brings to her
new job in Church House experience of business journalism in Ireland,
Australia and South Africa as well as practical experience in public
relations, media management, publishing, training and administration.
News of another communications initiative, this time from outside Dublin,
is also to hand. The Church of Ireland community in Trim and Athboy, under
the leadership of the Dean of Clonmacnois, the Very Revd Andrew Furlong, is
the latest group in the Church to establish their own website which they
hope will be seen to be innovative and thought provoking. The community
would welcome responses and participation especially in relation to the
images and Wisdom pages. The website address is http://www.cathedral.meath.anglican.org
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Bishop of Tuam, Dr Richard Henderson, will visit
Killala Cathedral, where the Dean is the Very Revd Ted Ardis. The Cathedral
is dedicated to St Patrick who is believed to have founded the diocese
between the years 434 and 441 and has, from time immemorial, been both a
cathedral and a parish church. The parishes of Dunfeeny, Crossmolina,
Kilmoremoy, Castleconnor, Easkey and Kilglass are grouped with the Cathedral
and the dean is assisted in his parochial responsibilities by the Revd Doris
Clements who is a priest in the auxiliary ministry.
The services in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin from Tuesday until the
following Sunday will be sung by the Close Chorale. On Thursday the
lunchtime organ recital in St Ann's Church, Dublin, will be given by Simon
Harden, the Organ Scholar of Trinity College, Dublin. Admission is free.
The Irish Council of Christians and Jews will host a public lecture on
Thursday at 8.00 pm in the Progressive Synagogue, Leicester Avenue, Rathgar,
Dublin 6. Dr Edward Kessler, Founder and Director of the Centre for
Jewish-Christian Relations in Cambridge, will speak on
"Jewish-Christian Relations: the State of Play Today".
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