CUMANN GAELACH na hEaglaise (the Irish Guild of the Church) recently held its agm when the following were elected to its Coiste (committee): Dr Kenneth Milne, the Rev Dr Eric Culbertson, Eileen McCracken, Seathrún Mac Éin, Dáithí Ó Maolchoille and Aonghus Dwane.
Daithí Ó Maolchoille was re-elected as honorary treasurer and Aonghus Dwane was elected honorary secretary.
The cumann aims to link its programme with the Irish language initiatives which have been centred around Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, in recent years, such as the Celtic Revival summer school, the Colmcille @ Christ Church festival and sung Evensong services in Irish.
The cumann announced that an interdenominational service in Irish would be held for Church Unity Week on January 23rd, and a sung evensong in Irish on March 14th. The cumann holds Irish services twice monthly in Dublin and all are welcome to attend these.
On the second Sunday of each month, there is a Eucharist in the chapel of the Church of Ireland College of Education, Rathmines, at 8.30am and on the fourth Sunday, there is a Eucharist in Christ Church at 5pm.
Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise was founded in 1914 to bring together members of the Church of Ireland interested in Irish language and Gaelic culture, and to promote the Irish language within the Church of Ireland.
Information on the cumann's services and activities may be found on its webpage at www. dublin.anglican.org/resources/ seirbhis_as_ gaeilge.php
Additional information may be had from Aonghus Dwane at 087-623 2841.
Tomorrow morning the Archbishop of Dublin will celebrate the Eucharist and preach in Monkstown parish church, while the former Bishop of Connor, Dr Samuel Poyntz, returns to his old diocese to preach at the services in St John's Church, Malone.
At 3.15pm there will be Epiphany carol services in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh.
In All Saints Church, Carnew, Co Wicklow, the choir of St Bartholomew's Church, Dublin, directed by Fraser Wilson, will sing at a service of nine lessons and carols for the feast of the Epiphany, which will begin at 5.30pm.
The events to mark the 175th anniversary of the Oxford Movement continue next Monday when the Dearmer Society will host a lecture at 7pm in the Church of Ireland Theological Institute, Braemor Park, Dublin.
Canon Patrick Comerford, director of spiritual formation at CITI, will speak on the topic, The Anglo-Catholic Movement: more relevant today than ever?
The Dearmer Society is a student society for ordinands interested in spiritual and liturgical formation, but Monday evening's lecture is open to the public.
The second volume of the correspondence of Edward Hincks, published by UCD Press, has recently appeared.
Hincks, the Irish Assyriologist and decipherer of Mesopotamian cuneiform, was born in Cork in 1792. He had a brilliant undergraduate career in Trinity, was elected to fellowship in 1813 and was ordained two years later.
Volume one contained Hincks's correspondence from 1850 to 1856 and this second volume continues the sequence up to 1860. The correspondence has been edited by Dr Kevin J Cathcart, emeritus professor of near eastern languages at UCD.