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THE MAGAZINE OF CHURCH MUSIC ▪ Giving worship a vibrant voice through music ISSUE 32 DECEMBER 2014

Dean Dermot Dunne welcomes the before . Photo: Al Craig On her retirement as Director of Music at Castleknock Parish Church, A Diocesan Choral Evensong Maedhbh Abayawickrema receives a presentation from Canon Paul On Sunday 23 November, as part of its diocesan outreach programme, Christ Houston. Church Cathedral invited parish church to sing Evensong with the cathedral choir. 60 people from all parts of the dioceses responded. Directed by Ian Keatley, cathedral director of music, the entire choral group rehearsed Peregryne, the small choral group before Evensong and the liturgy was then celebrated in the cathedral nave. The established in Vienna in 2009, specialising in late Middle English seating was arranged in collegiate style for the occasion. During the service, repertoire, will sing three times in Ricky Rountree, Archdeacon of Glendalough, presented certificates to church Dublin during the week before music students who had progressed satisfactorily in the Archbishop’s Certificate Christmas. Sunday 14 December at in Church Music course. 5pm; Friday 19 December at Music at Evensong: , ‘St Patrick’s Breastplate’ (arr. Stanford) and ‘Christ 5.30pm and on Sunday 21 triumphant, ever reigning’. Psalm 93 (chant Macfarren in C). : ‘For the December at 3pm. Full details on beauty of the earth’ (). ’s Evening Service in D and the page 3. Responses were sung by the cathedral choir alone.

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Organ Scholar, 2015-16 at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. Closing date 7 January LIVING WORSHIP 2015… 2 2015. Information from: Stuart Nicholson, Organist and Master of the Choristers, [email protected] TRAINING AND INFORMATION for church musicians … 2 Organist and choir director: Castleknock Parish Church, with Clonsilla. Information from Canon Paul Houston [email protected] and on CMD website SUMMER SCHOOL 2015 ... 3

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Living Worship 2015 This popular annual course will be held on the mornings of Saturdays Thanks and Praise 17, 24 and 31 January at The Mageough, Cowper Road, , beside the Luas tram stop. Thanks and Praise, to be published in May, The supplement to Church Hymnal, to will feature prominently. be titled Thanks and Praise, is on track to be launched at General Synod in On 17 January, Adrienne Galligan will discuss options for A Service of the May 2015. Following consultations with Word and All-Age Worship. Jacqueline Mullen will provide examples of various companies, Hymns Ancient and appropriate music, particularly from Thanks and Praise. Modern Ltd have been engaged to On 24 January, Gerald Field, Dean of Cashel Cathedral and Secretary of produce the supplement. Proof- the Liturgical Advisory Committtee, will discuss Morning and Evening reading by the group appointed by the Prayer, their structure and the use of music. David O’Shea will discuss Liturgical Advisory Committee (LAC) ways of singing the Canticles with particular reference to Thanks and started in October. A 15% discount for Praise. This session promises to be a lively discussion about our Anglican pre-publication bulk orders will be worship heritage and how we may continue to make it relevant. available. A number of choirs and choral groups throughout Ireland have The final session on 31 January will be led by Sandra Pragnell, Dean of St committed to recording items and it is Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, and Derek Verso, director of music at St Paul’s hoped that the recordings will be Church, Glenageary. They will talk about the use of music at the available concurrent with publication. in parish churches, and Sandra will consider how the use of space and symbols have an influential impact on how Christians worship. Let’s see you! Further details about Living Worship are on the CMD website: For future issues, we need good www.churchmusicdublin.org images of people singing - something Training videos happening, movement, people enjoying themselves, human interest …. Two new training videos were added to our website recently and to YouTube. The videos aim to make ongoing music education available to In brief, images that reflect the everyone. In Essential Hymn Playing 1 and Essential Hymn Playing 2, David singing church in action. Adams discusses hymn playing, the mainstay of any church organist’s Sunday repertoire. The first video covers registration, tempo, suitable play And we’d like to hear the stories overs and ways to encourage congregational singing. The second contains behind them too, so do write us little vital information for those embarking on hymn playing on the organ. snippets whenever you do something The Essential Organ Playing videos, and the earlier video Music, Eucharist & interesting. More formal choir photos You are on our website. They also are on the Church Music Dublin channel are welcome too, though we use them on YouTube. only sparingly.

New faces on the Church Music Dublin Executive We’re always happy to receive things. Adrienne Galligan has been rector of Crumlin and Chapelizod parishes [email protected] since 2008. She will be instituted as Rector of parish in January. Deputy organists Jack Kinkead is priest-assistant in Taney Parish, Dublin. Raymond Russell is organist and choir director at Monkstown Parish If you are on the deputy organist list, Church. be sure to let us know when your David O’Shea is organist and choir director at Sandford Church with St contact details change. We receive Philip’s, Milltown. occasional advice that the contact numbers are incorrect or that organists are no longer available. To view the list, go to www.churchmusicdublin.org/deputy

Remuneration guidelines The guidelines and recommendations are on the website. The suggested rates continue at the 2009 level. The guidelines are published jointly by Church Music Dublin and the Advisory Committee on Church Music of the Roman Catholic bishops.

Evensong commences at Christ Church Cathedral, 23 November. Photo: Al Craig

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Archbishop of Dublin’s Certificate in Church Music

This three-year course covers the skills needed by the church musician. It includes individual organ tuition, group sessions (Living Worship) on the interface between music and liturgy, and occasional modules on choir training and getting people to sing. Students commit to one year at a time and the cost is shared by the student, the sponsoring parish and the diocese. Sponsoring parishes also commit to 2015 Summer School involving the student actively in the parish’s worship and at Maynooth College taking an ongoing interest in their studies. In Year 3, students are expected to spend six weeks as interns in a For many years, the Irish Church Music Association designated church, under the supervision of the resident has held a Summer School for parish musicians. organist. We are delighted to announce that in 2015 the There also is a one-year Foundation Course, focussing on Summer School will be organised in association basic organ playing. Students may progress to the ACCM if with Church Music Dublin, from 2nd to 5th July they wish, and, in some cases, may be given exemption at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. from Year 1. The training needs and the challenges are similar Exam Results, May 2014: whether parish musicians work in Church of Year 3: Matthew Breen, Taney (Honours); Ireland or Roman Catholic parishes, so to join Stephanie Maxwell, Clontarf, (Honours); forces for a summer school is a sensible and Joseph Bradley, Pass; significant development. The programme will be Year 2: Emma Galloway, Waterford Parishes (Pass). planned jointly by both organisations. Worship during the three-day event will represent the For 2014-15, two students have signed up for the liturgies of both faith traditions. Foundation Course and six students commenced Year 1 of The team of tutors will include Andrew Reid, the ACCM. director of the Royal School of Church Music. One of the students, Thomas Maxwell, sponsored by Taney Andrew has visited Ireland from time to time and parish, achieved first place in the Junior Category at the RSCM affiliates who have experienced him at 2014 Northern Ireland International Organ Competition. work will want to do so again. Congratulations! The summer school is designed as a residential event, starting mid-morning on Thursday and is a small choral ensemble established in Vienna Peregryne ending after lunch on Sunday. The social aspect is in 2009 that specialises in late Middle English repertoire. Its one of its attractive features. However, the event membership has drawn together musicians from Ireland, England, France, Austria, Germany, Denmark and Korea. The group has fee structure will also cater for those who wish to performed in Dublin, Graz, Lucerne and Vienna and, more recently, participate on a daily basis. has concentrated on music of the 15th and 16th centuries, Watch out for further information performed as part of the monastic office of Compline in churches on the CMD and ICMA websites. and cathedrals around Dublin. The name Peregryne, ultimately finds its origins in the Latin ‘peregrinus’, meaning foreign or exotic, as the Irish monks or ‘peregrinatio’ must have appeared, wandering throughout Europe and beyond. Appropriate to Advent, Peregryne will sing a week of music reflecting on the mother of Jesus from Sunday 14 to 21 December, including four rarely-heard Salve Reginas. Sunday 14 December, 5 pm, Compline in Whitefriar Street Church. Salve Regina à 4 by Josquin de Prez (c. 1450/5-1521) and Salve Regina by William Cornysh, senior (c. 1430-1502). Friday 19 December, 5.30 pm, Compline in mediaeval St Audoen’s (C of I), Cornmarket. Salve Regina à 5 by Josquin de Prez and Salve Regina by John Browne (fl.c. 1490). Sunday 21 December, 3 pm in St Saviour’s, Dominick Street. Reflection: Salve Regina in words and music, with readings led by the Dominick Street community. Salve Regina by John Browne, Salve Regina à 5 by Josquin de Prez and Above: Archdeacon Rountree presents Stephanie Salve Regina by William Cornysh, senior. Maxwell with her ACCM certificate on 23 November www.facebook.com/Peregryne

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The Revd Peter Thompson, rector of Castlecaulfield and Donaghmore, last May became the first Irish person and also the first cleric to be awarded the Fellowship of the Guild of Church Musicians by examination. He joins a distinguished company of musicians from England, Italy, Canada and Australia who have been successful in the demanding series of examinations. A postgraduate qualification, the fellowship is awarded by the Archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster, on whose behalf the Guild administers the examinations. The diploma was presented by the Right Revd David Thomson, acting bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, at a recent award ceremony which took place during Evensong in St Edmundsbury Cathedral. Peter is pictured with John Ewington, General Secretary of the Guild who was delivering the citation, Dame Mary Archer, President of the Guild, and Bishop Thomson.

Simplified hymn accompaniments We continue to upload simplified hymn accompaniments to the CMD website. For Christmas, simplified arrangements of the tunes Mendelssohn (Hark! the herald angels sing), The holly and the ivy and Stille nacht are already available. Here is an arrangement of When the crimson sun had set. Do let us know which tunes you would like to see in future editions.

S O U N D B O A R D D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 4 5 RIAM church Talking to David O’Shea David O’Shea is organist and choir director at Sandford Church music syllabus and St Philip’s Milltown, and recently joined the Church Music Dublin Executive. He spent the 2013-14 academic year in Cambridge and David McConnell asks him about this. A welcome development is the inclusion of a Church Music strand in the Royal Irish Academy David, you have recently returned to Dublin after spending nine of Music’s Local Centre Syllabus for 2015-18. months at Cambridge University. Tell me a bit about what you Church Music Dublin has been approached on were doing there. many occasions by individuals who are interested I completed an MMus degree in Choral Studies, which was a in gaining a church music qualification but who, semi-academic, semi-practical course designed to give choral for various reasons, feel unable to commit to our directors training in different aspects of their work. On the training schemes. With such people in mind, over course we studied practical things such as conducting and the past two years we have discussed with the rehearsal technique, vocal health and training, and working RIAM the possibility of including church music with different types of singers and choral groups, as well as options within their education programme. The studying the history of choral music, its theological and proposal was received enthusiastically by RIAM liturgical contexts and performance practice, alongside topics Director, Deborah Kelleher and Chief Examiner, such as techniques for editing music. In addition to the course, Lorna Horan, and a syllabus was drawn up in I also studied voice, organ and harpsichord, sang as a member discussion with Church Music Dublin. of Selwyn College chapel choir and played continuo with the Two grades are available: Grade Eight in Church Cambridge University Collegium Musicum (the University Music and Senior Certificate in Church Music, period instrument ensemble). covering organ music, hymn and psalm What were the highlights? accompaniment, harmonisation, and Singing with Selwyn chapel choir was a particular highlight: I transposition. Improvisation is an additional had the opportunity to assist with rehearsals and work closely requirement for Senior Certificate. with director Sarah MacDonald and sing regularly with a group These examinations are a perfect follow on for of really excellent musicians. During the course I also had the anyone who has completed the ACCM or who opportunity to observe and work with such luminaries as wishes to present their skills for assessment. and Tim Brown, which was a real eye- Church Music Dublin is committed to excellence opening experience. Most of all, it was wonderful to spend a in music in worship and believes that every year living in such a beautiful place, filled with such an opportunity should be taken to hone one’s abundance of top-class music-making, not to mention Pimm’s, musical skills further. punting and May Balls! The Local Centre Examinations operate Did you feel inclined to stay in England and find work there? countrywide and reflect an Irish institution meeting a defined need. Continuation of the I did consider it and investigated several possibilities but, when Church Music strand after 2018 will depend on weighing things up, I realised that I had so much to lose if I the uptake over the next three years. We were to leave Dublin permanently. During the year I returned encourage students and tutors alike to consider to Ireland frequently to perform and so, between the promise the benefits of these examinations, not only to of work and a stable income in Dublin as well as my plans for themselves but to others who will follow behind further study, I think I made the right choice. However, I have them. made lots of contacts in England which I hope to maintain in the future.

MUSICIANS ON THE MOVE And what’s on your plate now? Nathan Barrett, music group co-ordinator at St Aside from resuming my work as Director of Music at Sandford Paul’s Church, Glenageary and junior choir director and St Philip's, performing in concerts, teaching, and directing at Whitechurch Parish Church. Joseph Bradley, choirs, I have recently begun a PhD at TCD, looking into the organist, Terenure College chapel. Róisín history of music at the , Dublin Castle. Burbridge, , Monkstown Parish Church. Robbie Carroll, organ scholar, St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral. Caroline Cutliffe, organist, Our Duets for Harp Lady of Victories Church, Ballymun Road. Cathal Killeen, St Mary’s Church, Blessington. John In addition to her work as non-stipendiary priest at Lindsay, Killiskey Parish Church. Donna Magee, Sandford and Milltown, Anne-Marie O'Farrell is of Director of Music, All Saints Church, Raheny. course a very active harpist and composer. She recently Chapel of Trinity College Dublin: Eleanor Jones- released a CD of harp duets with Cormac de Barra McAuley, conductor; Paul McDonagh-Forde, organ entitled 'Duopoly'. The album features a wide variety of scholar. Maedhbh Abayawickrema has retired as new arrangements in different styles and shows off the director of music at Castleknock Parish Church. breadth of colours of the harp. The CD is available from David Grealy, former assistant organist, St www.annemarieofarrell.com. Bartholomew’s Church, has moved to Köln, Germany on an organ scholarship.

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Ceol.jam Ceol.jam was set up early in 2014 by Donna Magee to provide an opportunity for young musicians in the Ranelagh / Sandford / Milltown area of Dublin to make music together. They meet in Sandford Parish Church on Sunday afternoons (see right) to ‘jam’ and have an expanding repertoire. New members are very welcome. facebook.com/ceoljam [email protected]

Talent in Parish Churches Photo: Photo: Photo: Arnaud Arnaud Arnaud Cras Cras Cras David O’Shea has been talking to three young musicians

Killian Farrell is in the third year of a music degree at weddings and funeral masses in the Dublin area. Patrice Trinity College, Dublin. He founded the choir, Jubilate, in Keegan, a former organ scholar at St Patrick’s 2009 at the age of 15, and conducted the choir’s Cathedral, has been organist since 2008. Her inaugural performance of Bach’s St John Passion on responsibilities include accompanying Niamh, Good Friday 2011. Since then he has amassed an performing solo organ music where appropriate, and impressive array of accolades, including the Orchestra also directing the choir. The choir of almost 30 singers Prize at the inaugural Feis Ceoil orchestral conducting rehearses on Thursday evenings, sings and competition. settings, as well as leading the singing with Niamh at 12 In conjunction noon on Sundays. with his studies, At the 9am Mass, Niamh and Patrice lead congregational Killian works singing as well as performing regularly as selections of liturgical items chorus master and solo pieces by composers with Wide Open such as Bach, Vivaldi and Opera, Lyric Mozart. The parish Folk Opera and Opera Group provides music at the T h e a t r e 10.30 Mass. Company and Music is chosen by Patrice currently he also and Niamh, and they always is working as conductor of The Oldest Woman in select hymns that fit in with Limerick, a newly commissioned opera by Brian Irvine for the scripture readings. the Limerick City of Culture. In the New Year he will be Niamh explains that her role musical director of a production of Monteverdi’s of cantor is to encourage the L’incoronazione di Poppea with the DIT Conservatory. assembly to sing. The words Killian has been organist at the mediaeval St Audoen’s of the hymns and readings (), Cornmarket for almost a year and in are printed in the Mass leaflet. Niamh feels it is important September he organised a concert of Bach cantatas for to do this. Patrice tells us that the congregational singing the harvest festival. He is a Bach fanatic and Jubilate in Dundrum Church is very good and has improved perform the Christmas Oratorio in the Church of St Pius steadily over the past few years. She says that as more X in Templeogue on Sunday 21 December. Killian is people join in the singing, the increased volume gives looking forward to bringing this great virtuosic choral greater confidence to the congregation, as individuals do work to a Dublin audience, and remarks that it is quite not feel so exposed and are less fearful to sing out. unusual to perform all six parts of the Christmas Oratorio Niamh agrees. “It’s one of the better parishes for in one session. Jubilate has around 50 members from a congregational singing. I’m a cantor, not a soloist. I’m not wide variety of backgrounds, ranging in age from college there for people to listen to me. We are all there praising students to those no longer working. Further details and God in music and song”. tickets available at www.stpiusx.ie Encouraged by the parish clergy, Niamh and Patrice have Music at Holy Cross Church, Dundrum recently produced a CD, to raise funds for Blossom Holy Cross Church is situated in the centre of Dundrum Ireland, a charity that supports children with special Village. The present church dates from 1878, replacing needs. The tracks on the CD are mostly pieces for organ an 1813 building. Pastoral responsibility rests with a and voice. The CD was recorded in Holy Cross, Dundrum, team ministry covering Dundrum, , and the 1982 Kenneth Jones organ (two manuals and Meadowbrook and Kilmacud. One of the co-parish pedals with no swell-box) presented numerous challenges priests, Fr Kieran McDermott, also is director of the in the choosing of repertoire. Vierne’s song cycle Les archdiocese’s Office of Evangelisation and Ecumenism. Angélus is the album’s centre-piece. There also is music by Sweelinck, Bach, and living composers Philip Martin Niamh McCormack has been cantor since 2009 and and Ad Wammes. The CD is available from Dundrum leads the singing at the 9am and 12 noon Sunday parish office, www.holycrossdundrum.org, and online at Masses. Niamh is a soprano, who also is in demand for www.niamhmccormack.com

S O U N D B O A R D D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 4 7 The Office Hymns ANDREW MCCROSKERY on a little-used category of hymn Hymns have been part of Christian practice and worship Thy blessèd unction from above from the beginning. The scriptures tell us that the is comfort, life and fire of love; disciples sang hymns together. Sometimes they would enable with perpetual light have been a psalm set to music or maybe a portion of the dullness of our blinded sight. scripture, similar to how we set to music. Anoint and cheer our soilèd face Hymns are sung at football and rugby matches, with the abundance of thy grace; sometimes gleaned from bawdy secular sources (with keep far our foes, give peace at home; new words of course!); and today hymns still are being where thou art guide no ill can come. written, sometimes borrowing from something old, at other times from something brand new. These verses describe the movement of God from above, down to us; the working of the Holy Spirit in us; how we At Choral and Solemn Evensong in St Bartholomew’s see and know it in love; and the light the Spirit brings Church we sing the lowly Office hymns, often overlooked, through the Gospel to help us see and know more clearly even maligned, for their lilting yet difficult tunes. Sung those things that are of worth and truly matter. The words immediately before the psalms at the ‘office’ of Evensong, hint at anointing, drawingin parallels from scripture of the these hymns reflect the liturgical season in which we find anointing of kings and prophets, presenting humanity as a ourselves in church. They are repeated Sunday after crowning glory of God’s creation, and being anointed for Sunday within particular seasons. Their tempo is a special task. In a few words, these hymns express a considered and they have a distinct stillness. Often they myriad of theological thought, of scriptural reference and rely on old plainsong chants, so most are instantly religious allusion. recognisable as being Office hymns. We are blessed that our choirs both know and sing them extremely well. The The Office hymns are amongst the most ancient Christian hymns possess a beauty and simplicity, such as this hymns we have. While some can be identified as the request for peaceful sleep: words of particular saints, usually the authors are unknown. Most date back to the 6th and 7th centuries AD Before the ending of the day, and that they have stood the test of time ever since creator of the world, we pray indicates their power and strength. Take a look at the very that thou with wonted watch would keep beautiful texts, paradoxically both simple and rich. thy watch around us while we sleep. The Revd Andrew McCroskery is vicar of St Bartholomew’s Many Office hymns are also vehicles of theology, doctrine Church, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. and Church teaching. Despite their simplicity, they can carry theological weight, providing insight into a Editorial note: In Church Hymnal, the following would particular season or feast – for example, the expression of probably be regarded as Office hymns: Nos. 60, 66, 69, 121, the work of the Holy Spirit in the Office hymn of 175, 241 242, 243, 296. Office Hymns are usually sung to Pentecost: plainchant.

A Piece from the Past The Parson's Handbook, by , first published in 1899, was fundamental to the development of liturgy in the and throughout the Anglican Communion. Percy Dearmer (1867-1936) was an English priest and liturgist. A lifelong socialist, he was an early advocate of the to public ministry (but not to the priesthood), and very concerned with social justice. He had a strong influence on the music of the church and, with and , is credited with the revival and spread of traditional and mediaeval English musical forms. The current Church Hymnal contains four of his hymns and three translations. In 1901, after serving four curacies, Dearmer was appointed the third vicar of London church of St Mary-the-Virgin, Primrose Hill, where he remained until 1915. The Parson’s Handbook ran into thirteen editions. It contains a wealth of fascinating advice and information, a great deal of it still relevant. Near the beginning there is a section on looking after the churchyard, including advice on how to grow bulbs in ‘smoky towns’! Here is what Dearmer writes about hymns: Hymns, it need hardly be said, rest upon a long-standing custom which has always been sanctioned by authority. They are therefore popular but authorized additions to the service; and their arrangement rests in general upon the parson’s discretion. It must be remembered that this discretion carries with it a grave responsibility both as to words and music. The arts have far deeper teaching power than we realise; and a bad tune (though it may be popular for a while) is demoralizing and irreligious in its effect, while a good one (though it will probably need to be used two or three times before it is appreciated) has constantly growing power over the minds of the congregation, and helps to build up a real spiritual atmosphere in the worship of the church.

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The September Festival in St Laserian’s Cathedral, Old Leighlin – which took place over the weekend of 12th-14th September – marked a celebratory milestone in the restoration of the cathedral’s fabric and renewal and outreach. The weekend followed on from a Service of Thanksgiving in June, when the restored Lady Chapel was dedicated by Bishop Michael Burrows. The Fingal Chamber Choir, directed by David Maxwell opened the September Festival on Friday evening. The Saturday programme included an Arts and Crafts Children’s Workshop on the theme of light and talks on the cathedral’s history, followed by a concert by Trinity Gospel Choir, directed by Neville Cox. On Sunday afternoon Mark Duley and David Milne led a Choral Workshop (above) for amateur singers from all parts of Carlow and Kilkenny. The singers then provided the music for Choral Evensong. The huge enthusiasm and support of the whole community marked the weekend as one of great joy and celebration.

Organ Builders at Work The following information has been received from Irish organ builders about major work completed since January 2014. SOUNDBOARD is published by Church Music Dublin Fine Tuning Company (Derek Verso), Dublin Dún Laoghaire Methodist Church: Repairs, refurbishment and tonal which is appointed by the Dioceses of enhancements; Castlemacadam, Co. Wicklow: Holy Trinity Church: Dublin and Glendalough to support Restoration of 2-manual Browne organ. and resource music and musicians Kenneth Jones Pipe Organs Ltd, Kilcoole in local churches

Valletta, Malta: St Paul’s Pro-Cathedral: Rebuild; Ashford: Church of the ISSUE 32: DECEMBER 2014 Most Holy Rosary: Repair and restoration of 1865 Telford organ; Wicklow: St Patrick’s Church: Partial restoration; Dublin, Meath Street: St Catherine’s Edited by David McConnell Church: Conservation / restoration of c.1858 Telford & Telford organ and David O’Shea Designed by Fraser Wilson following fire in church. Photography by named contributors Neiland and Creane Organ Builders, Wexford & public domain sources Bandon: St Patrick’s Church: Restoration of 1808 organ; Cabinteely: St Brigid’s Church: cleaning and revoicing of 1994 Neiland organ; Tralee: St Correspondence and material for future John the Evangelist’s Church: Restoration of early-20thC William Hill organ. issues should be sent to [email protected] O’Donovan Organs Ltd, Cork Buttevant: St Mary’s Church: Complete restoration, tonal enhancements; Views expressed in signed articles and Templemartin: St Martin’s Church: Complete restoration; Coolkelure, Co. letters are not necessarily those of the Cork: St Edmund’s Church: Re-build of 1870s Walker organ; Clonmel: editor or the Executive Committee

Tullaghmeelan Church: Restoration and action changed to electro-pneumatic. Chair Archdeacon Ricky Rountree Preservation Company, Belfast Secretary Mrs Jacqueline Mullen, Twinbrook, Co. Antrim: St Luke’s Church: Installation of 2-manual and pedal 23 Ludford Park, Ballinteer, Dublin 16 1961 JW Walker extension organ; Lisburn: St Patrick’s Church: New 3-manual Telephone +353 (0)1 298 8923 and pedal organ. email [email protected] Pipe Organs Ireland (Stephen Adams) Ballyhaunis Parish Church: action converted to direct-electric; Cork: Douglas Parish Church: Extensive repairs to pneumatic action; Dublin: St John’s The next Soundboard will be out in Church, Sandymount: Extensive repairs and cleaning; Sligo: St John’s April, so contributions should arrive Cathedral: Extensive repairs. with us by 15 MARCH please.