The parish of Taney set itself a millennium goal of re-hanging the bells from St George's Church, Temple Street, in its own Christ Church, Taney.
St George's was closed as a place of worship in 1990, and some of the furnishings were transferred to St Thomas's Church in Cathal Brugha Street.
Taney parish's success has proved to be of inestimable benefit to the Church of Ireland. A valuable part of our ecclesiastical heritage has been saved, new people have been introduced to the art of bell-ringing, and the residents of Dundrum now enjoy being "summoned by bells" on Sunday mornings.
Tomorrow morning the Archbishop of Dublin will preside and preach in Taney when the St George's bells will be rededicated and rung by the Taney Association of Change-ringers. Representatives of the National Millennium Committee, together with others who contributed to this project, will be present, as will members of the Irish Change Ringers Association and bell ringers from around the country.
Today in Rathmichael Parish Centre the Guild of Readers in the Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough will hold its annual Quiet Day which will be conducted by the distinguished writer on spirituality, Canon A.M. Allchin.
This evening the Dublin Welsh Male Voice Choir will give a concert in St John's Church, Sandymount, in aid of the church restoration fund, while in Swords the former archbishop of Dublin, Dr Donald Caird, will launch Greatly Benefited, a history of the Old Borough School, written by Andrew Whiteside.
Tomorrow RTE will televise a parish eucharist with the congregations of Enniskerry and Kilbride, Co Dublin. In the Chapel of Trinity College Dublin the preacher at the Sung Eucharist will be the Bishop of Meath and Kildare, while in St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, the chapter sermon on "Mission" will be preached by the Rev Richard Dadswell.
In the evening, the Right Rev Michael Mayes will be enthroned as Bishop of Killaloe in St Flannan's Cathedral. In Dublin the Archbishop's Awards in Church Music will be presented at Evensong in Christ Church cathedral, while the Irish Beekeepers Centenary Service will be held in St Patrick's.
On Monday evening, in Marsh's Library, the former dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Dr Victor Griffin, will launch Memoir in Sermons, a book by his successor, Dr Maurice Stewart.
On Tuesday, in the Old Library of Trinity College, Paul Herriot of Lyric FM will speak about "Incarnation - Songs on the First Coming" a CD featuring the College Chapel Choir.
The centenary of Oscar Wilde's death will be marked at Evensong on Thursday in Trinity College Chapel. The chapel choir will give the first performance of a setting, by John McNamara, of parts of Wilde's De Profundis, Senator David Norris will read the lessons, and Prof Brendan Kennelly will deliver a memorial address.
The Irish School of Ecumenics will hold a one-day conference in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on Saturday, December 2nd: "For You Were Strangers. Towards an Ecumenical Response on Refugees and Racism", at which the keynote address will be given by the Rev Dr Sahr Yambasu, a Methodist minister from Sierra Leone who currently ministers in Wicklow will speak.