AUGUSTINIANS AT CHRIST CHURCH:
The canons regular of the cathedral priory of Holy Trinity, Dublin

edited by Stuart Kinsella (Dublin: Christ Church Cathedral Publications, 2000)
ISBN 0-9526568-2-5, 80pp, pbk £4.99/€6.34

This book examines the Augustinian canons regular, a monastic congregation introduced to the cathedral by Laurence O'Toole after his appointment as archbishop of Dublin (later patron saint) in 1162. The order died out at the Reformation and today very little evidence survives either in manuscript form or as the type of distinctive buildings left by the Cistercians.

No major published survey of the Augustinians in Ireland exists, and Augustinians at Christ Church provides a much-needed case study of an institution that, according to the Revd Dr Adrian Empey, was 'unquestionably the most important Augustinian house in Ireland'.
The Revd Professor John Bartlett Preface
The Revd Dr Adrian Empey Introduction
The Very Revd Dr Michael Jackson St Augustine and the monastic experiment
Dr Sarah Preston The canons regular of St Augustine: the twelfth century reform in action
Dr Tadhg O'Keeffe Architecture and regular life in Holy Trinity cathedral, 1150-1350
Dr Raymond Gillespie The last years of the Augustinians at Christ Church, 1485-1537'
Press Release for Christ Church Deeds
and Augustinians at Christ Church		 Canons in the Cloister the lecture series
from which the book originates.
Speech made by Dr Art Cosgrove, President of University College Dublin
at launch of Christ Church Deeds and Augustinians at Christ Church.
Coverage of the launch (11 May 2001) of the Christ Church Deeds and Augustinians at Christ Church, and a review of the two volumes (11 January 2002) in the Church of Ireland Gazette.
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