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RCB Library

For the Library’s Opening Hours please click here. Before access to the Reading Room, Visitors must confirm they have read the Library Regulations. Please click here to read the Regulations for Readers of Archives and Manuscripts. The main functions of the Library are:   to serve the needs of those…

Online release of the digitized Alen Register showcases pre–Reformation world in Dublin & Glendalough

As the RCB Library continues its efforts to digitize and make more resources available to a worldwide audience, a second of its most significant medieval manuscripts: the Liber Niger Alani being the record of John Alen (c.1476–1534), Archbishop of Dublin and Glendalough, 1530–34 (RCB Library D6/3) is now digitally available for public…

01 Jul 2019

Location of Records

The Representative Church Body Library is the Church of Ireland’s principal repository for its archives and manuscripts, and holds records from over 1,000 parishes mainly but not exclusively in the Republic of Ireland. Records from a small number of parishes in the Republic are in the

Parish ‘Number 1’: Shrule, County Longford

The Representative Church Body Library currently holds 1,114 collections of parish records covering a variety of time spans (some dating back to medieval times, but most from the late 17th Century onwards) and…

01 Aug 2018

Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’

The Past On–Line When the present is challenging and the future uncertain the past can often seem like a safer place. Not that all the problems of the past have been resolved – far from it, but then that, in part, is what so attractive about the past.…

28 Mar 2020

‘Archive of the Month’ to be launched at the Church of Ireland RCB Library

The RCB Library is the principal repository for Church of Ireland archives. Commencing on 3rd January 2012, a new initiative ‘Archive of the Month’ will be launched to showcase specific collections in the library’s custody to a worldwide audience. A digital link will be available at:

03 Jan 2012

‘God’s Creation – Our Responsibility?’ theme of Eco–Congregation Ireland’s inaugural conference

Eco–Congregation Ireland (ECI) is holding its inaugural conference in Dromantine Retreat and Conference Centre, near Newry, Co Down, on September 14 & 15 2012, and warmly invites all those interested to attend.The…

03 May 2012

The last pre–disestablished cleric of the Church of Ireland: William Somerville–Large

A special Archive of the Month focusing on the personal story of the last member of the clergy to be ordained before Disestablishment – the Revd William Somerville–Large (1847–1939) – has been commissioned by the RCB Library as a final contribution to the 150th anniversary for 2019.…

02 Dec 2019

Church of Ireland Notes from ‘The Irish Times’

Saturday 7 January 2012 New Archival InitiativeThe Representative Church Body Library which is, among other things, the Church of Ireland archives, has launched a new archival outreach project. Beginning this month ‘Archive…

07 Jan 2012