A rare and unusual source bringing to life a wealth of local and social history in Co. Galway has been revealed by the RCB Library. Rector’s registers, where individual members of the clergy would make notes and write up their …
St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Galway, currently celebrating the 700th year since its foundation, is delighted to announce that the church bells are sounding out for seven minutes at 7pm for seven days. The initiative commenced on Sunday night (27th September) …
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, …
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 …
The ‘War to end all Wars’ came to an end on Monday 11th November 1918. After over four years of fighting and death, it was finally over. The sense of relief is captured in the pages of the weekly newspaper, …
Church of Ireland Gazette coverage of WWI, November 1918 Read more »
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 …
Date for your diary: COIHS Winter Conference 3 November 2018 Read more »
In addition to approximately 70,000 books, the RCB Library is the repository for the records of some 1,110 parishes. These registers often contain baptism, marriage, and burial records, but also numerous other items, such as vestry books, account minutes, and …
The Caddy Caricature: Hidden Aspects in a Church of Ireland Parish Register Read more »
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 …
Church Architectural Drawings Project: Tuam Diocesan Collection Read more »
The Church of Ireland is doing its part to mark the wonderful festivity that is Culture Night 2016. Here’s just a small sample of what is going on tonight right across the country (for further details visit the Culture Night …
In the latest of fascinating accounts on the value of exploring Church of Ireland parish registers, Gerry Kearney explores his approach to tracking parochial families in Killinane and Kilconickny in County Galway. Killinane Killinane, sometimes recorded as Killinan, was a vicarage …
Local history: using parish registers & gravestone inscriptions Read more »