27.03.2013
Details of April Meeting of Church of Ireland Historical Society Announced
The next meeting of the Church of Ireland Historical Society will be held in the Armagh Public Library (Robinson Library) on Saturday April 20. The library is located at the northwest entrance gate to the Church of Ireland Cathedral.
The programme for the day will be as follows:
10.30 am: Coffee in the Deanery (accessed via the entrance to the library)
11.00 am: Brendan Twomey, ‘“It did not keep me awake beyond my usual time above a quarter of an hour”: the origins of, and the management of, Swift’s fortune.’
12.00 pm: Daniel Ritchie, ‘Anglican and Evangelical Identities: William McIlwaine and the 1859 Revival.’
12.45 pm: Lunch will be provided at a modest sum in the Cathedral Music Hall
2.00 pm: Dr Miriam Moffitt, ‘The inception and reception of Walter A. Phillips (ed.), History of the Church of Ireland (1933).’
3.00 pm: Prof. Brian Walker, ‘Protestant experiences during the War of Independence and the Civil War: reports from Church of Ireland diocesan synods, 1919–23.’
The Speakers:
Brendan Twomey is an independent scholar with an interest in the financing of Dublin’s development in the eighteenth century, the political role of the parish vestry and Jonathan Swift. Recent publications include Dublin in 1707 (Dublin, 2009), and ‘Financing speculative property development in early eighteenth century Dublin’ in The Dublin Town House (Dublin, 2010).
Daniel Ritchie is a PhD student at QUB. His thesis is entitled ‘The public career of the Revd Isaac Nelson’. It focuses on issues such as anti–slavery, revivalism, and Irish home rule. He has a forthcoming article on William McIlwaine and the 1859 revival in the Journal of Ecclesiastical History.
Dr Miriam Moffitt holds a PhD from NUIM. She teaches Church History in St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, and is involved with the Centre for the Study of Irish Protestantism at NUIM. She published The Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics, 1846–1950 (Manchester, 2010), and Soupers and Jumpers: Protestant missions in Connemara (Dublin, 2008).
Prof. Brian Walker is Emeritus Professor of History at Queen’s University, Belfast. His main area of research involves Irish identity – A political history of the two Irelands: from Partition to Peace (Basingstoke, 2012). Other interests include the role of religion in politics as well as the impact of history and commemorations on contemporary society.
Registration:
There will be an opportunity for members to renew their annual subscriptions, if they have not done so already. The annual subscription is £35 or €40. Non–members are most welcome. They are asked to subscribe £7 or €10 to assist with conference expenses.
The Church of Ireland Historical Society meets twice a year: in the Robinson Library, Armagh, in April, and in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, in November. It exists to promote scholarly interest in the history of the Church and to facilitate publication.
Queries may be addressed to Adrian Empey, Hon. Sec. Telephone +353–1–4055056 or e–mail: empeya@tcd.ie