As of Wednesday, 5 August, visitors to St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, can now get a high tech insight into the building’s 800–year history following the launch of a new Discovery Space. Located in the cathedral’s South Transept, the interpretative centre was officially …
The RCB library has recently completed cataloguing thee correspondence & papers of Archbishop Richard Whately (1787–1863), archbishop of Dublin between 1831 and 1863, arguably the most dynamic Church of Ireland prelate of the nineteenth century. Collections of Whately papers survive in …
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Interested in hearing Irish harp music from the 17th and 18th centuries? From Friday 21st August until Saturday, 29th August, The Historical Harp Society of Ireland will perform ‘Songs of the Irish Harpers – the Legacy of Edward Bunting’. This offers …
The Catholic Historical Society of Ireland Annual Conference takes place on Saturday, 12 September 2015, at St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra. Registration opens at 10am with the first paper beginning at 10.30am by Raghnall Ó Floinn from the National Museum of …
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As is customary now, the Church of Ireland is taking part in the annual Heritage Week (24th-29th August). There will be a number of events taking place throughout the week in church and cathedrals, particularly for those with an interest in …
‘To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice’ (Clause 40 of Magna Carta 1215) 2015 marks the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta (‘The Great Charter’), one of the most famous documents in world …
On Saturday 25 July, Sally Henshaw will deliver a lecture at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. Here paper is entitled ‘The Six Wives of Henry VIII’. Ms Henshaw is from the Leicester branch of the Richard III Society and has been invited …
In 2014 the RCB Library compiled a list of original parish registers (baptisms, marriages and burials) together with surviving copies of same in Church of Ireland parishes. This catalogue, which includes originals and copies of registers held in the RCB Library and …
The committee of the Church of Ireland Historical Society are delighted to announce that Mr Jeffrey Cox has been awarded the postgraduate prize for 2015. Mr Cox, who is pursuing his PhD at University College Dublin under the supervision of Dr …
Christ Church Cathedral Dublin is hosting a summer lunchtime lecture series every Tuesday from 30 June to 21 July on ‘Women & the Church’. In a series of four lectures they will explore the role of women and the church ranging from …