As efforts in the RCB Library to digitize and make available its resources to a worldwide audience continue, one of its most significant medieval manuscripts, The Red Book of Ossory (RCB Library D11/2/1) is now available for public consultation on the Church of Ireland website.
Bram Stoker, the famed gothic novelist, was born on this day, 8 November 1847. The Stoker family were members of the Church of Ireland parish of Clontarf, county Dublin, where they resided at 15 Marino Crescent.
Although by no means complete, having suffered the ravages of time, including flood, fire and neglect, the scope of the muniments of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, (Swift’s cathedral) is vast.
The RCB Library holds well in excess of 80,000 books. Some attest to their innately personal nature, and those that are small emphasise this aspect further.
On Friday 22nd September 2017, Dr Susan Hood, Librarian and Archivist of the RCB Library in Dublin, participated in a launch event of digitized church records at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast.
The details of some 2,187 people – soldiers and their families – recorded in the registers of Ballincollig Garrison Chapel have been recovered using the registers of baptisms, marriages and burials between 1810 and 1922 now in the safe custody of the RCB Library.
Previously hidden aspects of the Church of Ireland’s input and influence on the Irish Convention are brought to light in a new online exhibition.
The ‘Book of the Moment’ in the RCB Library is the latest volume in the Library’s Texts and Calendars series: ‘Episcopal visitations of the diocese of Meath 1622–1799’.
The RCB Library has completed the latest phase of its work on the hand–lists of parish records in its custody.
A rare insight to the faith journey of the theologian and writer Joseph Blanco White, made possible by the survival of an exchange of correspondence with Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin, 1831–1863, is the topic for June’s Archive of the Month at the RCB Library.
