Left - Right
(S A T B - Soprano, Alto, Tenor & Bass)
Front Row: Rosemary Beecher-Bryant (S), Rosie Cooke (S), Aisling Kenny (S), Judith Gannon (S), Felicity McElroy (A), Tuula Voutilainen (A), Judy Martin (Director of Music), Lynda Byrne-Comerford (A), Judith Lambert (S), Susanna Fairbairn (S), Fiona Cullen (S), Sue Hemmens (S)
Back Row: Stuart Kinsella (T), Matthew Tamke (A), Cian Elliott (T), Brian Doherty (B), Gerald Rogers (B), Simon MacHale (B), Peter Parshall (B), Richard Bloomfield (T), Paul Thomas (B), David Crispin (T), Fraser Wilson (Organ Scholar, 2006-7) (B)
The wedding of lay vicar choral, Sue Brady and Dylan Rynhart
at Trinity College Chapel, Dublin on Saturday 23 June 2007.
Left - Right
(S A T B - Soprano, Alto, Tenor & Bass)
Front Row: Judy Martin (Director of Music), The Revd Canon Eugene T. Sutton (Canon Pastor, WNC), Elaine Whitehouse (S), Fiona Cullen (S), Judith Lambert (S), Gráinne Stafford (S), Tuula Voutilainen (S), Lynda Byrne-Comerford (A), Michelle Whelan (A), Áine Mulvey (A), Felicity McElroy (A), Judith Gannon (S), Aisling Kenny (S), Sue Hemmens (S), The Very Revd Des Harman (Dean of Christ Church), Tristan Russcher (Acting Assistant Organist)
Back Row: Ben Barnes (B), Gerald Rogers (B), Vinnie Lynch (T), Cian Elliott (T), Dermot Kiernan (T), Vladimir Kapor (T), Ian Lahiffe (B), Simon McHale (B), Kieran Tully (T).
Washington National Cathedral on 17 February 2006.
Left - Right
(S A T B - Soprano, Alto, Tenor & Bass)
Vladimir Kapor (T), Dean Desmond Harman, Sue Harman, Judith Lambert (S), Gerald Rogers (B), Dr Kenneth Milne, Cian Elliott (T), Michael Denton, Ian Lahiffe (B), Aisling Kenny (S), Michelle Whelan (A) (Red berré), Simon McHale (B), Judith Gannon (S), Kieran Tully (T), Felicity McElroy (A), Vinnie Lynch (T), Sue Hemmens (S), Tuula Voutilainen (S), Gráinne Stafford (A), Linda Byrne (A).
(Missing from photo - Fiona Cullen (S), Áine Mulvey (S), Dermot Kiernan (T), Elaine Whitehouse (S), and Ben Barnes (B) [courtesy of St Patrick's cathedral]).
(Deborah Abbott (S), Dan Apalaghie (T), Ian Russell (B) and organ scholar,
David Baskeyfield were not on the trip).
[Taken at Dublin airport by Lesley Rue]
Ellie Kingsbury (A), Victor Coe (B), Éanna MacCriostail (B), Sam Piper (B), Dan Apalaghie (T), Fionnula de Burca (S), Elaine Whitehouse (S), Eric Finch (B), Richard Griffith (T), Stuart Kinsella (T), Liz Hilliard (S), Carole Watt (S & Organ Scholar), Anne O'Neill (S), Anthea Seager (A), Aideen Rickard (S), Sarah Lane (A), Sue Hemmens (S), Chris Gifford (T), Susan Hood (S), Michael Lee (B), Mark Duley (Organist & Director of Music), Ruth O'Herlihy (A), Roy Stanley (T), Judith Gannon (S), Jean Finch (S)
[Taken at Clonard monastery, Belfast]
Dean John Paterson, Stuart Kinsella (T), Barry Lysaght (B), Eric Finch (T), Richard Griffiths (T), Gerald Rogers (B), Jean Finch (S), Victor Coe (B), Elaine Whitehouse (S), Dan Apalaghie (T), Fiona Cullen (S), Judith Gannon (S), Mark Duley (Organist & Director of Music), Archbishop Walton Empey (kneeling), Lucy O'Sullivan (S), Clodagh Merry (A), Seán Green (B), Camilla Campling (S) (kneeling), Ruth O'Herlihy (A), Anne O'Neill (S), Chris Gifford (T), Sue Hemmens (S), Caitríona Ní Dhubhghaill (A), Judge Liam Devally.
[Photograph taken in the cathedral crypt by Lesley Rue]
Left - Right
(S A T B - Soprano, Alto, Tenor & Bass)
Outlier speeding in from the left-hand side - Ronan Conroy (B)
Front Row
Debbie Metrustry (A), Sarah Lane (A), Anita Wilson (S), Catherine Hamill (now Scott) (?), Paula Dowzard (S), Rachel Talbot (S), Helen Roycroft (S), Sue Hemmens (S), Jean Finch (S), Sarah McKeown?? (S?), Ruth O'Herlihy (A), Connie Gardiner (A)
Back Row
Cathal Synnott?, [??], Eric Finch (T), Warwick Harte (T), Michael Finlay (T), William Carslake (Organ scholar), Stuart Kinsella (T), Arthur Sealy (B), Jonathan Browner (B), Robin Heather (B), Mark Duley (director)
Thanks to Connie Gardiner & Ronan Conroy for filling in the blanks.
Left - Right
(S A T B - Soprano, Alto, Tenor & Bass)
Front Row
Catherine Hamill (now Scott) (S) Jacqueline Armstrong (S) Sue Hemmens (S) Linda Seymour (S) Barbara Hart (now Crowe) (S) Roslyn Durham (now Christie) (S)
Peter Sweeney (Director of Music)
Back Row
Kerry Houston (B) Jimmy Young (B) James Sarsteiner (T) Nancy Monahan (A) Patricia Quinn (A) Nigel Bannister (T) Peter Guilding (A/T), Paul Kermode (B)
Thanks to Sue Hemmens for photo and names.
Left - Right
(S A T B - Soprano, Alto, Tenor & Bass)
Roslyn Durham (now Christie)(S), Barbara Hart (now Crowe)(S), James Sarsteiner (T), Nancy Monahan, Nigel Bannister (T), Peter Guilding (A), Jimmy Young, Paul Kermode (B), Peter Sweeney (director).
Left - Right
(S A T B - Soprano, Alto, Tenor & Bass)
(Front row) Paul Traynor, Jill Taylor, Jacqueline Armstrong (now Sarsteiner), Janet Darling, Judy Pomeroy, Linda Seymour, Barbara Hart (now Crowe)(S), Roslyn Durham (now Christie)(S)
(Back row) Billy Macken, Mervyn Percival, Peter Kerr, James Sarsteiner (T), Ronán Conroy, Charlie Percival.
Names supplied by Lesley Rue, Stuart Kinsella and Judy Pomeroy (choir member 1977-89 and choir librarian). Clarifications welcomed!
Left - Right
Desmond Weelkes, Leslie Roche ('Snuffles'), Stephen Moss, Andrew Seymour, Paul Traynor (last chorister)
Press photograph and some names supplied by Judy Deacon née Pomeroy.
Cathedral Choir (c.1978)
Left - Right
(T S A T B - Treble, Soprano, Alto, Tenor & Bass)
Front Row
Leslie Roche ('Snuffles'), Andrew Seymour, Desmond Weelkes, Stephen
Moss, Andrew Marino*, Paul Traynor (last chorister), Rodney Macken, Denise
Taylor, Jill Taylor, Helen Roycroft (S)
Middle Row
Judy Pomeroy, Roslyn Durham (now Christie) (S), Clive Macken, Peter
Kerr (T), William (Billy) Seymour, Graham Deane
Back Row
Alan Macken, Trevor Deane, David Taylor, Charlie Percival, Billy Macken
Photograph from a 1978 Eason's cathedral guide, scanned by Eric Finch, named
by Barbara Hart (now Crowe), Leslie Rue, Judy Pomeroy, Rodney
Macken, and Scott Hayes
(who was in St Patrick's school with many of the boys).
* Youngest son of the late Ronnie Marino,
assistant organist at St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
Left - Right
Third Row - Alf Davis (sexton), Norman Williams (Alto), Revd Thomas 'Tom' Mack, William 'Billy' Macken (Alto), Arnold McKiernan (Organist and Master of the Choristers), ?, Arthur Frazer (archdeacon of Glendalough), The Dean?, Roger Pickett (Bass), Victor Williams (Tenor), [Jim Tinkler (Tickeral?) (Alto) or Robin ?Lamb], Arthur Hughes (Tenor), Bob Chandler (Chaner?) (Bass/Baritone), Jimmy (Bill?) Young (Decani Bass), Bill Grimson (Cantoris Bass), Revd Victor Crawford, Canon R.J. Ross (precentor), Joe Coady (Verger).
Second Row (Four Boys) - Alan Lamb, David Franklin, Trevor Steedman, ?.
First Row - Eric Kinlan, Jackie Cross, ?, David Byrne, Stephen Kent, Leslie Glasgow, Clive Macken, Norman Birney, Trevor (or ?Maurice) Talland (?Tallon), (Clifford Kinlan or David Kent). Original supplied by Mark Gardner, names by Bob McIntyre, Roger Pickett and Lesley Rue. Appeared in the 1966 Year Book. Former Lay Vicar Choral, Arthur Hughes (Tenor) has supplied all the names of the back row.
Another picture in which might interest viewers is that of a 'CHORISTERS AND CLERICAL VICAR' as it is refered to in a Christ Church Cathedral Year Book for 1966.
Left-Right
Robert Spencer, Trevor Steedman, Harry Collins, Jackie Cross (with glasses), Leslie Taylor (behind him), Frank Watson (Chorister with tongue in cheek), Nigel Pelow (background - not in choir), Frank Collins, Revd Victor Crawford (Teacher & Clerical Vicar), Leslie Patton, Alan Cox (behind him), Robert Patton, Trevor Bayfield, Clifford Kinlan, David Franklin & Charles Oliver.
Many thanks to Leslie Taylor, Nigel Peilow and Rodney Macken for help with identification.
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| Christ Church Cathedral School blazer crest c.1950 (This replaced an enamel badge) |
The priest with the cathedral school soccer team is the Revd F.W Rodgers, clerical vicar and headmaster,
who taught at the choir school from 1949-63.
Front Row: ???, Alan Foster (future brother-in-law of Clive Armstrong!), Clive Armstrong (with ball), Randal Elliott, Albert Fox.
Advice with other names welcome.
Many thanks to Keith Armstrong for this photograph and the blazer crest, to Hazel Rooke for supplying Mr Rodgers' dates, and to Randal Elliott for providing the majority of the names of the front row.
Boys (left to right)
John McDonagh, Fred Newell, Howard Linney (brother of future archdeacon, Gordon Linney), Fred Brew, Norman Sudbury, 'Nobby' Vincent, Keith Armstrong, Victor Charles Beckett (Winstanley scholar 1949-50).
Canon R.J. Ross is second from the right.
Advice with names welcomed.
Many thanks to Keith Armstrong for this photograph, which was taken at an annual Christmas event, and for his identification of a number of the clergy. Thanks also to Kim Morton for identifying her father, Victor Beckett.
Boys
Clive Armstrong (leading procession on right), behind whom is Eric Bryant, and behind him, Alan Foster
Gentlemen
[Keith Armstrong recalls the altos being Begley and William Rafter, and the tenors as Robert McCullagh and Maddison. The basses were Jack Harte and Frank Cowle]
The last two choirmen in the procession are Jack Harte (Christ Church 1947-1957) and to his right, Frank Cowle.
The tall man three from the back is Richard Midgley, an English tenor (prominent in the Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society, as was Bob McCullagh, and, in earlier years, Jack Harte, and organist T.H. Weaving).
To the right of Midgley (with the wavy hair) is Robin Luke, and in front of him (a little dark hair) is Robert (Bob) McCullagh. In front of Bob McCullagh is Begley, while in front of Begley with the face obscured by the leading chorister is Willie Rafter.
Clergy
In front of the verger is the dean's vicar & headmaster is the Revd Frederick Rogers, and behind the verger is Canon Norman D Emerson (later dean). He is followed by the silver haired Dean Lewis Crosby.
(Cathedral archives)
Many thanks to Dean David Godfrey, Keith Armstrong and Fred Harte for identifying many of the above, and Randal Elliott for identifying choristers Bryant and Foster.
Advice with names welcomed.
The Revd Tom Salmon, clerical vicar 1944-5 (later dean 1967-88)
teaching in the grammar school (Cathedral archives).
From Deryck Vincent, whose father William John Vincent (b.1928)
is the small boy in the centre. Advice on names welcome.
(from the 1938 cathedral Calendar and Blotter)
Charles Kitson's choir, note Kitson in second row,
one in from the left with off-the-shoulder hood.
Dean Walsh is in the centre with white hair.
The verger is possibly William Conneff, who took a number of photographs for William Butler's 1901 history of the cathedral.
Thank you to Keith Armstrong for this photograph.
For former chorister and later composer, Edgar
Martin Deale (1902-1999), see David C.F. Wright's article about him.
