The sixth volume in the Representative Church Body Library series of parish registers has been reprinted. Unlike the previous volumes this is a reprint of an earlier publication but one which was long out of print.
James Mills's Registers of the Parish of St John the Evangelist, Dublin, 1619-1699 was published in 1906 and was the first to be produced by the Parish Register Society of Dublin. Mills's edition has been republished in its entirety by the RCB Library and is available through booksellers or direct from the library at £13.95.
Today, in association with the Church Pastoral Aid Society, the Sunday School Society of Ireland will hold a training day in St Brigid's parish, Stillorgan, from 10.30 a.m. until 4 p.m.
In Dean's Grange Library an exhibition on "South County Dublin's Christian Past" will open and will continue for one week.
Tomorrow RTE will broadcast Sung Matins from St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, where the Dean is the Very Rev Norman Lynas, and in the afternoon in St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick, the Right Rev Michael Mayes will be enthroned as Bishop of Limerick. At 5.30 p.m. in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the final concert in the Bach Festival will be given by Christ Church Baroque and the Cathedral Choir with guest soloists.
In St Macartan's Cathedral, Enniskillen, the former Bishop of Connor, Dr Samuel Poyntz, will be the Remembrance Day preacher, while in St Fin Barre's cathedral the Bishop of Cork will preach on the theme of "Reconciliation". There will be no morning service in Cashel Cathedral but instead the Dublin Male Voice Choir will lead a Remembrance Service in Magorban parish church at 11 a.m. The preacher at the Order of Remembrance in Trinity College Chapel will be Prof Andrew Mayes, and at Evensong, in St Patrick's Cathedral, the Remembrance Day address will be given by the Abbot of Glenstal, the Right Rev Christopher Dillon.
On Monday, Evensong in St Patrick's Cathedral will, for the first time, be sung by the cathedral girls' choir, and on Tuesday the Christ Church Cathedral girls' choir will sing the Eucharist, at 4 p.m., for the Feast of St Laurence O'Toole, the patron saint of Dublin.
In St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, on Tuesday evening, the Archbishop of Armagh will commission the Rev Charles Irwin as Church of Ireland Mission Resource Person, while Bishop Poyntz will represent the Primate at the opening, in London, of the General Synod of the Church of England. In the Chapel of St Columba's College, Dublin, the Rev Trevor Williams from the Corrymeela Centre will speak on the theme "Together towards Reconciliation" in the college's Millennium Lecture Series.
On Wednesday the Cathedral Libraries and Archives Association will meet in York. Among the Irish representatives will be the Dean of Cashel, Dr Philip Knowles, who has been most active in promoting the Bolton library, and Mrs Sue Hemmens from Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. The Christian Studies Centre in St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, which is celebrating 25 years of witness, has as the theme of its autumn session "Jubilee". On Wednesday at 8 p.m. the centre will host a public lecture by Mrs Bet Aalen on "Jubilee and Debt" and this is open to all.
Friday is the Feast of St Doulagh, when the preacher at the patronal festival service in Balgriffin will be Ms Sandra Pragnell, an ordinand in the Theological College.