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
The Church of Ireland and its past
The Church of Ireland Historical Society is pleased to announce that The Church of Ireland and its past: history, interpretation and identity, edited by Mark Empey, Alan Ford and Miriam Moffitt, is now out and available in all good bookstores. Co-funded…
BIG NEWS! Reformation 500 Conference, October 2017
The Church of Ireland Historical Society, together with our friends in the Catholic Historical Society of Ireland, have been working tirelessly in the background organising a big conference to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. We are delighted to…
Tagged with: Books, Christ Church Cathedral, conference, historiography, history, Luther, Reformation
The Foundation and Development of the Church of Ireland Divinity Hostel
During the summer of 2016 Sean Hanily worked in the Representative Church Body Library, where as well as cataloguing this collection he also worked on the Library’s printed collection relating to the Church of Ireland’s connection with Trinity College, Dublin.…
Tagged with: Church of Ireland, Dublin, history, local history, RCB Library, records, twentieth century
Church of Ireland and Culture Night 2016!
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…
Historiography of the Church of Ireland
The Church of Ireland Historical Society is delighted to announce that together with Four Courts Press they will publish a book on the historiography of the Church of Ireland in 2017. Edited by Dr Mark Empey (National University of Ireland, Galway),…
COIHS is on Twitter!
The Church of Ireland Historical Society has taken the next step in global domination by joining Twitter. Together with our website, the Society hopes to connect to a wider audience and keep both members and non-members informed of developments. We also…
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Conference at Christ Church Waterford
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…
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