The Church of Ireland Historical Society will meet in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, today.
In the morning the Bishop of Meath and Kildare, Dr Richard Clarke, will speak on Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin from 1831 to 1863. Whately, whose portrait dominates the Chapter Room in the cathedral, was a man of many parts.
He founded a chair of political economy in Trinity College, tried to set up a separate theological college, and had to cope with the consequences of the Church Temporalities Act of 1833 which united the dioceses of Dublin and Kildare.
The relations between Dublin and Kildare may also impinge on the second speaker's contribution. The Rev Adrian Wilkinson, Rector of Dunboyne, will talk about St Brigid's Cathedral, Kildare. Mr Wilkinson is part of a collaborative project, masterminded by Dr Raymond Gillespie of NUI Maynooth, to produce essays on Kildare Cathedral, in effect, a history of the cathedral.
The final talk will be a presentation by Mr Ronnie Wallace on his work of revising Canon J. B. Leslie's unpublished biographical succession lists of the clergy of Dublin and Glendalough. This project is under the auspices of the united dioceses, which are committed to publishing the revised lists.
There will be a memorial service today for motor-cyclist Joey Dunlop in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, while in St Bartholomew's Church the a.g.m. of Affirming Catholicism will be followed by a talk by Canon Adrian Empey, Vicar of St Ann's, on "The Social Witness of the Church Today". In Cork, the Centre for Christian Studies in St Fin Barre's Cathedral will celebrate 25 years of constant witness.
The Very Rev Maurice Carey, founder of the centre, will preach at a celebration of the Eucharist and the Rev Prof Enda McDonagh will speak after lunch on "Directions in Irish Theology Today".
Tomorrow RTE will broadcast Morning Service from the QUB chaplaincy in Belfast, where the chaplain is the Rev Andrew Forster. In the TCD Chapel, the preacher at the Sung Eucharist will be the Rev Ian Davis, from All Saints Church, Margaret Street, leading centre for AngloCatholic liturgical expression in London.
The Bishop of Yambio in the Sudan, the Right Rev Peter Munde Yacoub, is visiting as a guest of CMS Ireland. Tomorrow he will be in Kill o' the Grange parish where there will be a Famine Lunch after morning service.
In the afternoon, the Annual Huguenot Commemoration in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, will be addressed by the Rev Dr Thomas O'Connor, lecturer in modern history in NUI Maynooth.
On Tuesday the C of I Primary School Chairpersons' Association a.g.m. will be held in the C of I College of Education at 2.30 p.m. The standing committee of the General Synod and the executive committee of the Representative Church Body will meet on Tuesday in Dublin, where the bishops will meet on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, the Friends of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, will have an evening of "Music and Musings" in the crypt, with civic and cathedral personalities and members of the Cathedral Choir (telephone 01-4976680).