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,…
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The pre-Reformation World in Dublin & Glendalough: Alen Register digitised
Tagged with: Christ Church Cathedral, Church of Ireland, Digitisation, Dublin, Medieval, RCB Library, Reformation, register, sixteenth century, Tudor
The Bank Holiday Read: A Visual Window to an Ecclesiastical World Exhibition
The RCB Library’s exhibition showcasing a selection of the Church of Ireland’s historical architectural drawings – entitled A Visual Window to an Ecclesiastical World – was launched on Tuesday, 7th May, by the Archbishop of Armagh, the Most Revd Dr Richard Clarke,…
Tagged with: architecture, archive, Church of Ireland, Derry, Digitisation, drawings, exhibition, nineteenth century, Raphoe, RCB Library, Tyrone
The Bank Holiday Read: ‘News Behind the News’ from the Gazette
The Church of Ireland Gazette – the Church’s weekly newspaper since 1856 – was written and read by lay and clerical members among others. It provides the longest-running public commentary on its affairs, and as such recognised as a valuable primary source for…
Tagged with: bicycle, Church of Ireland, Decade of Commemorations, Gazette, nineteenth century, parish, social history
Exhibition of Church of Ireland Architectural Drawings
An exhibition of the Church of Ireland’s historical architectural drawings – entitled A Visual Window to an Ecclesiastical World – will be launched by the Archbishop of Armagh, the Most Revd Dr Richard Clarke, next Tuesday evening (7th May) at the Architecture…
Listen back: COIHS Armagh 2019
Missed the last conference at Christ Church Cathedral on 3rd November? Members of the Church of Ireland Historical Society can now listen to the latest papers delivered by Professor Rachel Moss on the impact of the Reformation on medieval parish churches,…
Tagged with: Armagh, Church of Ireland, eighteenth century, Francis Hutchinson, Medieval, podcasts, RCB Library, records, Reformation
The Bank Holiday Read: the Kinmonths of Shandon, Cork
The RCB Library recently solved a genealogical mystery concerning the family of Kinmonth from the parish of St Anne’s, Shandon. Whilst originally a family name of Norman origins, and with strong links in Scotland, Kinmonth is not a typical Cork…
Tagged with: Cork, eighteenth century, genealogy, Kinmonths, nineteenth century, records, register, Shandon
Looking back: Armagh conference 2019
On Saturday 6th April, the Church of Ireland Historical Society (COIHS) hosted its first conference of the year in the Armagh Robinson Library. We had a superb turnout and wish to thank members, both old and new as well as…
Tagged with: Armagh, Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle, eighteenth century, Francis Hutchinson, Medieval, Neely Prize, Postgraduate, RCB Library, records, Reformation, register
Marking Disestablishment 150: display at RCB Library
Under the terms of the Irish Church Act (32&33 Vic. c. 42 sect. 2) of 26 July 1869, which passed into law in 1871, the union between Church and State in Ireland that had existed since the Reformation was dissolved, and…
‘The great crusade? The Church of Ireland and interpretations of the Second World War, 1939-45’
As part of the Church of Ireland Historical Society’s commitment to supporting postgraduates and their research, we asked the 2018 W. G. Neely Postgraduate Prize Winner, Mathew Houston, to write a short blog about his essay. Here’s what he had…
The Weekend Read: Publication of early 19th-century architectural albums online
The project to digitize, catalogue and make available online the Church of Ireland’s collections of architectural drawings of churches housed in the Representative Church Body (RCB) Library has reached another significant landmark, with the completion of imaging ten albums of…
Tagged with: architecture, Church of Ireland, history, James Pain, Joseph Welland, nineteenth century
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