CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 27th April 2002
From: The RCB Library
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John Roberts Celebrations in Waterford
On Friday a weekend of events to celebrate the
distinguished eighteenth century architect, John Roberts, will begin in
Waterford. Roberts, who lived from 1714 until 1796, was responsible for
much of the Georgian architecture of Waterford is particularly
remembered as the designer of both of the city's cathedrals. Such
ecumenical architectural patronage is most unusual and certainly unique
in Ireland.
The weekend will open on Friday evening with a
lecture by the Hon. Desmond Guiness, founder of the Irish Georgian
Society and will continue with a visit to Curraghmore, a walking tour of
Waterford, a lecture by Mr Colm O'Riordan of the Irish Architectural
Archive, and a visit to Waterford Museum and Treasures exhibition where
some items from the Church of Ireland cathedral are on display.
On Saturday evening Christ Church Baroque and the
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, will give a concert in the
Church of Ireland cathedral, the Cathedral Church of the Blessed
Trinity, more usually known as Christ Church, where the dean is the Very
Revd Peter Barrett. On Sunday Christ Church will be the venue for an
Ecumenical Service to celebrate the life of John Roberts at which the
Christ Church, Dublin, choir will sing. Following the service there will
be a wreath laying ceremony at the French Church, the burial place of
the Roberts family.
Details of the John Roberts Weekend may be had from
Waterford Chamber of Commerce, George's Street, Waterford.
Today (Saturday) the Bishop of Cork, the Rt
Revd Paul Colton, will be in Urshaw College, Durham, for a meeting of
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. In Armagh the Girls' Friendly
Society 125th anniversary celebrations begin while in St Mary's Church,
Julianstown, the Bishop of Meath and Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke, will
preside at the GFS Diocesan Festival Service. In Dublin there will be a
Springtime Sale in All Saints Church, Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock. In St
Multose's Church, Kinsale, there will be a concert by the Cork Symphony
Orchestra which will include works by Mozart, Schubert and Fauré. The
orchestra will be joined by Cor Cois Adhainn and the conductor will be
Ms Helen Sheehan.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning RTE will televise an
act of worship with the Leprosy Mission, conducted by the Revd Ken
Gibson. The preacher at the Sung Eucharist in the Chapel of Trinity
College, Dublin, will be the theologian and writer, Dr Siobhan Garrigan.
At 5.15 pm there will be a service of Choral Evensong with the Choir and
Orchestra of St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, Australia, who will also
sing Evensong in St Patrick's Cathedral on Tuesday. Tomorrow (Sunday)
afternoon Christ Church Cathedral will host a Diocesan Confirmation when
the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Walton Empey, will confirm candidates from
the parishes of Blessington, Booterstown, Dalkey, Monkstown, St
Bartholomew's, Santry, Glasnevin, Finglas and Tallaght.
This year is the centenary of the installation of the
Willis organ in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, It was built in 1902 and
was the gift of Lord Iveagh. The organ was the first major project of
Henry Willis II and remains the most significant and least altered large
example of his work. To celebrate this centenary a series of organ
recitals has been arranged and these will take place each Wednesday at
6.30 pm until the 19 June. The opening recital next Wednesday will be
given by Peter Barley, the newly appointed organist of St Patrick's, and
subsequent recitalists will include former organ scholars and assistant
organists of St Patrick's, including Timothy Noon from St David's
Cathedral, Wales, and Geraint Bowen, organist of Hereford Cathedral.
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