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…
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The Weekend Read: Publication of early 19th-century architectural albums online
Tagged with: architecture, Church of Ireland, history, James Pain, Joseph Welland, nineteenth century
Book launch! Protestant and Irish: the minority’s search for place in independent Ireland
On Tuesday 12 March former Senator, TD and Minister Dr Martin Mansergh will launch Protestant and Irish: The minority’s search for place in independent Ireland, edited by Ian d’Alton and Ida Milne, and published by Cork University Press. It will…
Date for your diary: COIHS Spring Conference, 6 April 2019
The Church of Ireland Historical Society’s first conference of the year will be on Saturday, 6 April 2019 in Armagh Robinson Library. The library is located at the northwest entrance gate to the Church of Ireland Cathedral. Tea and coffee will be served from 10.30am and the…
Tagged with: Chapel Royal, Church of Ireland, conference, Dublin Castle, Hutchinson, library, manuscripts, Medieval, parish, records, Reformation
Medieval Irish manuscript, The Red Book of Ossory, to be published
The RCB Library has digitised one of its most significant medieval manuscripts: The Red Book of Ossory (RCB Library D11/2/1). Not only is it available for public consultation on the Church of Ireland website but it will also be published by The…
W.G. Neely Postgraduate Prize 2019!
The Church of Ireland Historical Society is delighted to announce that the W.G. Neely Postgraduate Prize for 2019 is now open! The W. G. Neely Prize, named in honour of the founder of the Church of Ireland Historical Society (COIHS), provides an excellent…
Tagged with: architecture, Church of Ireland, history, history of art, Postgraduate, Publication, Research
Ireland’s earliest register: St John’s Parish Register 400 years old today
It’s a special anniversary! On 7th February 1619, the oldest surviving register in existence in Ireland, the combined register from St John’s parish in Dublin, commenced. This makes this particular volume 400 years old this month. During her recent visit to…
W. G. Neely Prize Winner: Matthew Houston
The Church of Ireland Historical Society is delighted to announce that the 2018 W.G. Neely Postgraduate Prize Winner is Matthew Houston. His paper was entitled ‘The great crusade? The Church of Ireland and interpretations of the Second World War’. He…
The Strokestown (Bumlin) Parish Registers 1811-1969
Those with an interest in the Longford/Roscommon region might be particularly interested in the latest finding at the Representative Church Body Library. Below is transcribed content of the parish registers of the former union of Bumlin, Kiltrustan and Lissonuffy in…
St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick: newly discovered 19th Century Renovation Story
St Mary’s Cathedral in Limerick was founded in 1168 by King Domnhall Mor O’Brien (descendant of Brian Boru) and purportedly built on the site of the royal residence of the kings of Munster. This year has marked the 850th year…
Listen back: COIHS Dublin 2018
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 Steven Ellis on the Reformation and St Nicholas’s Collegiate Church in Galway,…
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