Irish Times Notes27 Apr 24

Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’

CIYD Survey

The Church of Ireland Youth Department has issued a reminder for its survey

‘Researching the youth ministry landscape in the Church of Ireland’ The research project is seeking to assess the full picture of how youth ministry takes place across the Church, and needs as many parishes as possible to take part. To this end, every parish is encouraged to take the time to fill in the survey accurately between now and our deadline of Friday 12 July.

National Youth Officer, Simon Henry, said: “The data collected will benefit the whole Church, and of course individual dioceses, so we can see an accurate landscape of youth ministry across the island and be challenged to better serve our young people and grow them in Christian faith and discipleship.”

If anyone has any questions or queries with regards to the survey, or needs the link to the survey to be emailed to them again, or needs assistance in completing it, please contact Olive Good at olivecgood@gmail.com or on 00 353 87 245 1310.

The survey takes around 15 minutes to complete.  CIYD  looks forward to hearing what you have to say, so that it  can support the Church in the best way possible going forward.

Today (Saturday) Christ Church cathedral will welcome the Armenian Community in Ireland to commemorate the 1915 Armenian Genocide with a reflective service of Choral Evensong at 6pm. The service will feature performances of Armenian piano music. The Armenian Genocide unofficially began with the arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals by Turkish officials on April 24, 1915. Over the next several years a series of systematic deportations and mass executions along with intentional starvation would cause the deaths of more than one million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey.

In St Ann’s church, Dublin, tomorrow (Sunday),at 12:45pm Adam Collins and JiSun Min will perform violin and piano and on Thursday at 1:20pm there will be a piano recital by Dean Kelly.

On Thursday evening the Archbishop of Dublin, who is also Bishop of Glendalough, will preside at a meeting of the Synod of Glendalough in St. Parick’s Church and Parish Centre, Greystones.

The first concert of Music in Calary’s 2024 season will take place at 8 pm on Friday in Calary parish church, Co. Wicklow, when The Dublin Viols together with soprano Aisling Kenny will perform music of the late Renaissance, mostly by English composers of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century including William Byrd. The Dublin Viols: Mark Wilkes (viol), Lucy Robinson (viol), Malachy Robinson (viol) and Andrew Robinson (viol) are an offshoot of The Consort of St Sepulchre. Tickets, at €18/15  may be booked by email to or at the door.derekneilson11@gmail.com or ring (01) 2818118.

The Dean of Limerick, the Very Revd Niall Sloane, has announced that “Cars at the Cathedral”, a display of special and rare cars and motorcycles, will be held in the grounds of St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, on Saturday 4 May from noon until 4pm as part of the city’s summer festival, Riverfest Limerick. Over 120 years of motoring will be on show, ranging from an Irish built 1902 motorbike to a present day world speed record holder. The cars will include a 1905 luxury horseless carriage and a rare modern day Ferrari supercar.  On display inside the Cathedral will be a collection of restored pedal cars, never before seen design drawings, bicycles and rare motoring memorabilia. Tickets can be bought on Eventbrite or at the gate, and all profits will go to local charities.