Web Site Info - Site History

28/12/1997	The Dean's January Review for 1998 is now available, in which he 'thanks all who have sent good wishes for a speedy recovery after his recent heart transplant operation'. Also included is an overview of President McAleese's visit plus a review of the General Vestry Register which is currently being revised. (Applications before noon Thursday 16 January.
24/12/1997	The Christmas messages from Archbishop Eames and Archbishop Empey are available on the Church of Ireland Webpages. Also included is a link to St Paul's Cathedral Choir, Dunedin, New Zealand who sang an evensong in the cathedral during their recent tour on which they have written a report.
17/12/1997	The launch of the Stanford CD occurred yesterday evening in the crypt and an official press release is included here.
15/12/1997	Updated History pages, as well as the style of several pages. Also included link to article on the launch of Professor Geoffrey Hand's Festschrift. Professor Hand is the main contributor to the medieval section of the cathedral History project. Included updated list of members of the girls' choir.
12/12/1997	The Church of Ireland Website includes a list of Christmas Services in the cathedrals.
10/12/1997	The picture on the Priory Records CD cover has now been included in the recordings page.
05/12/1997	The cathedral choir appeared on the front page of the online version of the Irish Times yesterday and are mentioned several times in Arminta Wallace's feature: The Sounds of Christmas. The personnel page of the cathedral choir has also been updated.
03/12/1997	Have updated the personnel list for the cathedral and also included an updated list of recordings of the choir. The most recent of which can be purchased for £1 with every £10 of petrol from Esso!
26/11/1997	The Precentor of St Patrick's recently reviewed The Chapter Act Book of Christ Church Dublin, 1574-1634 in the Church of Ireland Journal: Search. It is the third publication in the Christ Church Documents Series.
21/11/1997	Here is the Dean's Review for December.
20/11/1997	Due to excessive busyness and some software bugs, it has been exactly a month since the website was updated. Included here are the Dean's Review for November, and that for December is hot on its heels. One of the cathedral's celebrated former choristers, Eurovision winner, Eimear Quinn, now has here own Official Web Page. Under construction though as all are.
21/10/1997	As the chimes of the cathedral clock have very pleasantly resumed their melodious duty in the last few days, it is apt to refer to the Letters to the Editor of 14 December 1996 in the The Irish Times in which, under Christ Church Bell Ringers, Leslie Taylor clarified that it was the responsibility of the bell ringers and not the vergers for not ringing the bells 'merrily enough' at the birth of the Prince of Wales in 1688!
20/10/1997	Microsoft Expedia have included our web address in their information about Christ Church.
17/10/1997	We have just won a "SEAL OF EXCELLENCE AWARD" from Majon Web Select. At a recent Pilgrim's Conference in London at which the cathedral was represented, a technology was demonstrated for giving guided tours of the interiors of cathedrals. One of the techniques used was 360 degree photos. Here is the technology put to use for Christ Church, run by a group called Dublin VR (Virtual Reality to the uninitiated). Please be patient! Also added link to a biographical page on our present organist's predecessor, Peter Sweeney, who recently played for a Galway Cathedral Organ Recital.
15/10/1997	Browsers might be interested to read the following article published in The Irish Times on the subject of Archbishop McQuaid and a Cathedral for Dublin by the Archdiocese of Dublin Communications Office.
13/10/1997	Four Courts Press the publishers of the Christ Church Documents Series have, as you can see, now got their own webpage including a synopsis of the latest volume: The First Chapter Act Book of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin 1574-1634. Also included long overdue update of the committee members of the Friends.
10/10/1997	Belatedly discovered that the visiting choir we had recently: Saint Mark's church, Dundela have a webpage. (See October Review). Have also updated the music links.
30/09/1997	Again, belatedly updated the diary with Services for week beginning 28 September 1997.
24/09/1997	Included the Dean's October Review.
23/09/1997	Updated the page for the Christ Church Lecture Series which is being organised by the Archives committee. As a point of interest, Marsh's Library of which the Dean is a patron, has just completed an online catalogue which is available at their website.
22/09/1997	Belatedly updated the diary with Services for week beginning 21 September 1997.
19/09/1997	Updated History page and included a public invitation to the launch of the next volume of the Christ Church Documents Series, as well as the 1997 Joe Coady Lecture
18/09/1997	The old Church of Ireland webpage (as it is now) has moved from Indigo to www.ireland.anglican.org, but has yet to be officially launched. Have also included some other news about Kenneth Milne's new book (which was somehow overlooked and should have been uploaded in June!).
15/09/1997	The diary which has lain waste since 5 January 1997 is now being updated once again under a more automated system. The list of services and events for the week beginning 14 September has just been added and will hopefully continue from now on. Comments to email@cccdub.ie are always welcome. Also Dr Raymond Gillespie, the 1997 Joe Coady Lecturer, is now in colour! The Archives Page has also been updated including a preliminary look at the Christ Church Lecture Series. A page of its own to follow.
07/09/1997	Here is André Jute's opinion on the performance of the Cathedral Choir at the The West Cork Chamber Music Festival: "Duley's choir is [a] well-regulated machine which, like the best of the soloists, always make it seem so easy anyone can do it; they must work incredibly hard behind closed doors".
05/09/1997	Updated both Cathedral Choir personnel list and that of the Girls' Choir.
03/09/1997	Added link to Onsite Ireland which includes the House of the Future Project, one of the designers of which was Ruth O'Herlihy, a choir member. Also added a link to the Manchester Cathedral, whose Voluntary Choir recently visited the cathedral.
27/08/1997	More good news on the organist front. On Tuesday 19 August, Ian Sexton, last year's Guinness Organ Scholar, was appointed Assistant Choral Director at St. Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork. Also included here is the Dean's September Review.
19/08/1997	Have made small adjustments to the Organ Subpage, and added the name of Stephen Mailey (last year's Organ Scholar at Trinity College Dublin) to the list in the Guinness Organ Scholarship page, as our current Organ Scholar for 1997-8.
18/08/1997	The Board have announced that Mr Warwick St John Harte has been appointed as the new administrator at the cathedral. His appointment will take effect from Monday 1 September 1997. Considerable updating of the History Subpage, especially the Ancillary Publications has been done. Also some snippets from the What's On? section i.e. Other News have been added.
12/08/1997	Added the Dean's August Review.
08/08/1997	Added the Dean's July Review. No we haven't forgotten about the webpage, just been a tad busy!
29/05/1997	Added the Dean's June Review.
27/05/1997	Removed the by now quite irritating broken counters from the pages.This should speed up the loading of the pages considerably.
20/05/1997	The Dean warmly welcomes all visitors to the cathedral webpage.
16/05/1997	Included review from Doras, Telecom Internet. The updating (specifically weekly service lists) is on its way. As for the "off-putting homepage", make your own mind up! :-)
06/05/1997	Added some more links, including Trinity Chapel Choir whose recent CD contains music by former organists of Christ Church and St Patrick's cathedrals.
03/05/1997	The Dean's May Review is now online. Also the page for the Joe Coady Lectures has been revised, while some additions have been made to the list of cathedrals.The music links have been updated as well, including an absolute must for anyone interested in English Cathedral Music. Added section under libraries for Antiquarian bookshops.
02/05/1997	We've just been given a 3 Shamrock rating from Doras at Telecom Internet. The Dean's monthly Review is on its way!
29/04/1997	Our counter's gone down again, so here's a page of interesting ones to keep people occupied.
18/04/1997	To inform readers, the Easter Vestry was held on Thursday 17th April,at which 9 lay members of the Board were appointed. These were Judge Gerard Buchanan, Dr Kenneth Milne, Mr Dáithí Ó Maolchoille, Mr Mervyn Percival, Mr Terence Read, Mr Desmond Kinsella, Ms Helen Roycroft, Mrs Lesley Whiteside and Mr Stuart Kinsella. (The Church of Ireland Directory listing of Board members for the beginning of the year is listed for comparison).Other things that have been updated are the music and tourism links. Even our NEW sign is new!
14/04/1997	Have removed guestbook and hope to have another soon. Have installed a working but basic counter to keep track of numbers (since Cyberhits have been down for about a month).The figure I'm working from is 2400 (assuming that is has moved up by at least 2300 in a month).
06/04/1997	Added a guestbook at Dreambook, signable here. Have also searched in vain for as good a free counter as Cyberhits. Any suggestions?
04/04/1997	Updated cathedral's tourist links page and included link to the Friends of Christ Church Oxford page which they have just started to assemble. (They visit the cathedral on Sunday 20 April).Also included an extra biography in the Organists page.
29/03/1997	Added the Dean's April Church Review notes and updated archives page.
28/03/1997	All those interested should make a note in their diaries for the Easter Vestry which will be held at 7.00pm on 17 April after evensong. The Dean has already referred to some changes e.g. December 1996 Review and the basics of the statutes which form the cathedral's constitution are already online (although admittedly having undergone considerable changes since 1902). Also please bear with us regarding our broken counter!
21/03/1997	Apologies for the counter being offline for so long. Cyberhits are trying to fix it. Some pictures have also been moved to another server. Hope this does not slow things down. We'd much appreciate it if anyone was prepared to host picture files on their web allocation which comes with most email/web access accounts (which to be honest few people ever use). Remember the cathedral is always contactable at email@cccdub.ie
11/03/1997	Added news of the Joe Coady Memorial Lecture under Friends Events. It is on in the cathedral on Tuesday 18 March at 8pm, so make a date in your diaries.
25/02/1997	Added our namesake Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford to both the links to other cathedrals and the Dean's miscellaneous links. On a point of interest both Dublin and Waterford cathedrals had very similar Viking origins, unfortunately, to make way for an new 18th century cathedral in Waterford, they filled the crypt with barrels of gunpowder and blew up the medieval building!
23/02/1997	Added the Dean's Church Review for March.
21/02/1997	Considerable amount of updating done. Firstly updated the choir personnel list with the addition of four new members, bringing the numbers back up to 25.Also included some new links in the tourism page. The archives pages also has some additions.MusicBase have noticed us and have agreed to include us on their next news update and the music links page has been updated accordingly. The history page has had some sections added in the form of a links page which should allow the inclusion of all sorts of material of interest. Finally the cathedral personnel page has been updated.
17/02/1997	Updated the Church of Ireland section of the website.
09/02/1997	Added a list of Friends publications (to be revised soon).
08/02/1997	The cathedral choir is listed by RTÉ as participating in The West Cork Chamber Music Festival
06/02/1997	Here are two puzzles which should while away the time! Tiles and Lights.
04/02/1997	The choir personnel page has been updated, as has the music links page.The History page has also been revised, with the addition of an up-to-date publication schedule of the ancillary volumes, and Adrian Empey's review of the proctor's accounts.This is taken from Vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring 1996) of Search - A Church of Ireland Journal and it is so complimentary that we've printed Adrian's full title!
29/01/1997	Included here are domain name extensions for working out the less obvious countries. Out of curiosity, we are the only cathedral listed under the Westminster Abbey Links Page.
28/01/1997	Added some links to the choir recordings page. Also added the February Review. Just a reminder that the counter can be clicked on to give fascinating statistical information about the webpage. The Irish Times now have a searchable archive from 1/1/1996 and included here is a search for cathedral related subjects.
26/01/1997	We've got a working modem again, so updates will begin appearing again. (You may have noticed that the weekly service sheets were not being uploaded.) Secondly, our counter is working once again (if a little slower). Statistical information can be gleaned by clicking on the counter. (This had been running and a history existed, but in order to reset the counter to the correct number, the history had to be lost.)
09/01/1997	Apologies for the strange low numbers appearing on our counter, but unfortunately Cyberhits, the server which we use was hacked. It should be back to normal soon, but in the meantime just add 1040 to the number shown!
03/01/1997	The Weekly Service List is online now, as is the Dean's January Review of events. We are still experiencing a few hitches as regards modems, but hope to have them sorted out soon.