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…
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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
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
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,…
Tagged with: architecture, Christ Church Cathedral, Church of Ireland, conference, Galway, Medieval, podcast, podcasts, reform, Reformation, Whately
Looking back: Dublin conference 2018
On Saturday 3rd November, the Church of Ireland Historical Society (COIHS) hosted its second conference of the year in the Music Room at Christ Church Cathedral. We had a superb turnout and wish to thank members, both old and new…
Tagged with: architecture, Christ Church Cathedral, Church of Ireland, conference, Galway, Medieval, nineteenth century, podcasts, reform, Reformation, Whately
Date for your diary: COIHS Winter Conference 3 November 2018
The Church of Ireland Historical Society’s second conference of the year will be on Saturday, 3 November 2018 in Christ Church Cathedral’s Music Room, Dublin. Tea and coffee will be served from 10.30am and the first paper will start at 11am. Confirmed speakers are…
Tagged with: architecture, Christ Church Cathedral, Church of Ireland, conference, Dublin, Galway, Irish, Medieval, nineteenth century, reform, Reformation, Whately
A weekend read: The Tin Church at Laragh, County Monaghan
One of the fascinating aspects from the pages of the Church of Ireland Gazette (formerly Ecclesiastical Gazette up until 1900 and the Church’s weekly newspaper since 1856) are the lesser known stories that can be found when researching. Unearthing how Laragh Tin…
Tagged with: architecture, Church of Ireland, Gazette, Kildare, Laragh, Leitrim, Monaghan, nineteenth century, parish, tin church, Tipperary
Sneak peak: Episcopal visitations of the diocese of Meath 1622-1799
To mark the publication of the Representative Church Body Library‘s latest volume in its Texts and Calendars series: Episcopal visitations of the diocese of Meath 1622-1799 (taking place tomorrow, Thursday, 6 July at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Trim) we offer a brief insight…
Church Architectural Drawings Project: Tuam Diocesan Collection
The latest phase of the project to digitize, catalogue and make available online the Representative Church Body Library’s collections of architectural drawings of churches has resulted in the processing of drawings from the western Diocese of Tuam. To date (as…
Listen back: COIHS Dublin podcasts 2016 (members only)
Missed the last conference at Christ Church Cathedral on 5rd November? Members of COIHS can now listen to the latest papers delivered by Dr Bronagh McShane on clerical wives in early modern Ireland, Dr Judith Hill on the on the architectural wonder that…
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