06.03.2012
The Church of Ireland Historical Society
The next meeting of the Church of Ireland Historical Society will be held in the Armagh Public Library (Robinson Library) on Saturday 28 April 2012. The library is located at the northwest entrance gate to the Church of Ireland Cathedral.
PROGRAMME
10.30am: Coffee in the Deanery (accessed via the entrance to the library)
11am: Dr Robert Armstrong, ‘The Solemn League and Covenant (1643) and Protestant Ireland’
12pm:
Prof. David Fitzpatrick,
‘Non–Covenanters: why one–quarter of
Protestant Ulster dissented in 1912’
1pm: Lunch will be provided
at a modest sum in the Cathedral
Music Hall
2pm: Mr Robbie Roulston, ‘“We must fight and fight and fight again”: the Church of Ireland and opposition to free Protestant second–level education in the Irish state: 1966–72’
3pm: Dr Michael O’Neill, ‘A view into Ossory parishes in the eighteenth century: the evidence of Episcopal Visitation returns’
THE SPEAKERS:
· Dr Robert Armstrong is a senior lecturer in history at Trinity College, Dublin. He is one of the Principal Investigators on the IRCHSS Insular Christianity Project and co–editor of Irish Historical Studies. He has published widely on early modern Ireland and Britain, particularly the religious, political and intellectual history of the seventeenth century.
· Prof. David Fitzpatrick is Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin. He has published extensively on the Irish revolution and international migration. In 2011 he published Solitary and wild: Frederick MacNeice and the salvation of Ireland. He is currently preparing a book entitled The Orange: Protestant brotherhood in Ireland since 1795 (Cambridge, forthcoming 2013).
· Mr Robbie Roulston is an IRCHSS doctoral scholar at UCD. He held the Albert Lovett Scholarship in 2009–10. His thesis is entitled The Church of Ireland and the Irish state: institution, community and state relations, 1950–1972. It aims to provide an historical account of the Church of Ireland in the context of church–state relations as an institution.
· Dr Michael O’Neill did his PhD in Architectural History at Trinity College, Dublin. He has published a number of important articles, particularly in relation to Irish cathedrals. His current project is cataloguing the extensive collections of 19th century architectural drawings of churches at the RCB Library. This is funded by the Esme Mitchell Trust.
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