Launch of St Bride’s Vestry Records

RCB Library Notes07 Nov 11

Launch of St Bride’s Vestry Records

Last Thursday evening in St Patrick’s Deanery, the Church of Ireland Historiographer, Dr Kenneth Milne, launched the fifth volume in the RCB Library’s ‘Texts and Calendars‘ series which is published by Four Courts Press.

Dr Kenneth Milne Church of Ireland Historiographer), Michael Webb (Chairman of the Library & Archives Committee) and Ronnie Wallace at the book launch in the deanery of St Patrick’s Cathedral

The Dean of St Patrick’s, the Very Revd Robert MacCarthy with Michael Webb

St Bride's Vestry Records

he Vestry Records of the Parishes of St Bride, St Michael Le Pole and St Stephen, Dublin, 1662–1742, which has been edited by Mr Ronnie Wallace, contains information on the parish church, clergy, patterns of worship, and the role of the parish officers and their interaction with the city in areas such as poor relief, fire–fighting and policing. It will be valuable to those who are interested in ecclesiastical history and in the dynamics of in inner–city Dublin life in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The book is available from bookshops or direct from Four Courts Press, 7 Malpas Street, Dublin 8 (www.fourcourtspress.ie) at €50/£45

For further information please contact

Dr Raymond Refaussé

Librarian and Archivist
RCB Library
Braemor Park
Churchtown
Dublin 14
01 492 3979

01 492 4770
raymond.refausse@rcbcoi.org

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RCB Library Notes07 Nov 11