As some of you may know 2016 marks the 160th anniversary of the Church of Ireland Gazette. It was first published in March 1856. Initially known as the Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette (up to 1900) for the first three years of its existence the paper …
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The Church of Ireland Historical Society’s spring conference will be on Saturday, 23 April 2016 in Armagh Public 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 first paper will …
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An unusual source was recently brought to the attention of the RCB Library staff by professional genealogist Máire Mac Conghail who is a regular user of the Library’s family history resources. Having consulted the combined register for St Audoen’s parish …
On Thursday 24 March at 1 pm the Dublin Unitarian Church on St Stephen’s Green is holding a lunchtime public talk on ‘Dublin Protestants and the Easter Rising’. The speaker will be Dr Martin Maguire, senior lecturer at Dundalk Institute of …
On Friday 18 March and Saturday 19 March Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford, is hosting a conference entitled ‘Remembering, Forgetting and Fulfilling 1916: Can the future be built upon the untapped resources of the past?’ The aim is to critically analyse …
A short memoir of the life of Ellen Hutchins (1785-1815) who became Ireland’s first female botanist, which is in the custody of the Representative Church Body Library, has been digitized and made available online: Hutchins memoir Regarded as the first female …
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An Post and the Irish Society for Archives is hosting an event entitled ‘Hidden Pages from the 1916 Rising’ at St Thomas’s Church, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin 1, on Tuesday 2 February. With fives short papers and chaired by the …
The ongoing project to digitise the historical issues of the Church of Ireland Gazette has entered a new and exciting phase, with the successful uploading and indexing of this invaluable resource for the period 1911–1923. It is re–launched in January 2016 …
The magazine of the Redemptorist Congregation in Ireland, Reality, is planning on publishing a number of articles on the event surrounding the 1916 Centenary this year. Some of these are already in place. The magazine’s editor, however, would like to …