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Every issue Free! Monkstown Voice Monkstown Parish Church, St Patrick’s Church, Monkstown & the Society of Friends Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 6 June 2017 PAGE 2 MONKSTOWN PARISH CHURCH, ST PATRICK’S CHURCH AND THE FRIENDS VOLUME 1, ISSUE 6 Monkstown’s Community Newsletter surprising given the subject matter of the film. It is set against the background of the persecution of Neville Keery writes..... Christians in Japan in the 17th century. It is a long thoughtful film about the nature of faith, conscience Each Sunday in June, as every Sunday, there is a Meeting and evangelisation. It is also a deeply serious and for Worship from 10.30 to 11.30 in the Quaker Meeting spiritual film. It raises questions about the apparent House on Packenham Road. All are welcome. Anyone silence of God during periods of persecution and interested in local architecture and the history of Quakers suffering. Although it was not a success on its cinema in Ireland can find a detailed history of the Packenham release one has a feeling that this will film will be Road building in David M. Butler's book, The Quaker around for many years. It will be a rich source of Meeting Houses of Ireland, published by the Irish Friends discussion for film clubs and groups such as our own. Historical Committee in 2004. Some Friends worshiping in We will view the film in the parochial house on 20 Meeting Houses in Central Dublin in the nineteenth June at 7.30pm. We wish all readers of Monkstown century looked to what was then the Kingstown area as an Voice, and all in our congregations, a very happy and agreeable place to live. They became known as “carriage safe summer. Enjoy your holidays! Fr Michael friends” establishing comfortable households near the coast and traveling to work in Dublin. Their first Meeting Phone 2802130 email: [email protected] for Worship, known as Kingstown, was settled in a rented Canon Roy Byrne writes… room in Seapoint house from 1830. They leased the site on which today's Monkstown Meeting House stands in Half way through the year and our sixth edition of 1833. Monkstown soon became accessible by train ‘Monkstown Voice’ rolls off the printing presses! through the construction of the Dublin to Kingstown Summer is a time for rest and recreation and we wish railway. The railway was promoted by several prominent all our parishioners, friends and readers a restful Friends, including James Pim junior (1796 -1856) and was summer. Our prayerful good wishes to all sitting their soon known as “the Quaker line”. The first building on the State Examinations this month and of course to the Packenham Road site was completed in 1832 , with candidate’s families in this stressful time. Summer of schoolrooms added in 1837 and 1868. Early on there was Heritage begins in a few short weeks and full details also provision for caretaker accommodation and, of the opening times for Monkstown Parish Church surviving this and other changes, you can still see a serving will be available in the Summer of Heritage magazine hatch in the wall along the road which is part of a soup currently being printed. The church will also kitchen built about 1848 to help with famine relief. Key participate fully in Heritage Week and Culture Night factors in shaping the building much as you see it today, so we hope many will use the opportunity to visit us were a serious fire in the 1880s and changes made in 1968 and learn more about this extraordinary building. The when part of the site was taken for road widening. Irish Chamber Orchestra will perform an evening of Compensation at that time was used to make changes iconic American music directed by Katherine Hunka enhancing the simplicity and modernisation of the on Friday 16 June at 8:00pm. Full details on building. Every effort is made to ensure safe access to the www.paviliontheatre.ie. Tickets €20 / €18 available building and to meet today's standards in heating and online. Further information from the theatre box lighting. When Friends are not using the building office –01 2312929. Please don’t forget that the themselves, there can be lettings to local organisations, Monkstown Village Pet Service will take place in the most notably a Montessori school. church on Sunday 25 June at 3:00pm and all are welcome to come along (with or without a pet!). Neville Keery 0879474687 email: [email protected] There will be no family service on 25 June due to the family pet service that afternoon. The next edition of Fr Michael Coady writes… ’Monkstown Voice’ will be a combined July / August The year certainly rolls around very quickly and it is hard edition. Deadline - 15 June please! to believe that we are in the month of June. The end of Parish Office 2147714 email: [email protected] the school year is in sight. We keep those young people who are preparing for the Junior and Leaving Certificates (Cover photograph) An evening ‘Malahide’ Dart arrives at Monk- in our prayers. We pray too that we will be supportive to stown / Salthill station. Photo: Canon Roy Byrne, with permission granted by Irish Rail for publication in ‘Monkstown Voice’. them in those other ways of helping them to make their Please remember that we are always interested in receiving arti- life choices. We have decided to continue the MC3 Film cles and news for the ‘Monkstown Voice’ and that the deadline is Club into June. The film we have chosen for June is Martin the 15th of the month regardless of the day of the week. Articles Scorsese’s film “Silence”. This film did not set the box may be emailed to [email protected] and clearly marked office alight when it was released in January. This is not ‘Monkstown Voice’. (Next magazine will be a combined July / August edition). PAGE 3 MONKSTOWN PARISH CHURCH, ST PATRICK’S CHURCH AND THE FRIENDS VOLUME 1, ISSUE 6 Monkstown Tidy District. Progress Report on Monkstown Tidy District project It’s time to clean up our village! So get involved on Decisions from the project meeting of 4 May held in the St Patrick's parish office meeting room: Saturday 10 June 2017 The boundaries of the Tidy District area should begin from 10.30 a.m. until 12.30 p.m., from the shops and businesses on Monkstown Road meet at Monkstown Parish Church. (just before the Knox Hall) and continue down Monkstown Road into Carrickbrennan Road, turn left [email protected] into Pakenham Road, turn left again at Grosvenor Terrace, then left along Monkstown Crescent, continuing to the original starting point. The short commercial roads going right from Monkstown Crescent down to Longford Terrace should also be included in the district area. Did you notice… Séamus Cannon While no management committee for the project Did you notice… the ogee window on was set up, the offer of Anne Harrington and Monkstown Castle? This is the little MarieTherese McCoy to set up an e-mail address list elaborately shaped window on the inside of to set up Facebook and Twitter accounts was the tower at the entrance gate. This little curiousity is our welcomed as a means of keeping in touch with best clue to the date of construction of the castle, probably everyone who had volunteered to get involved. the late 13th or the 14th century. The castle was built by the monks of St Mary’s Abbey to defend their agricultural It was agreed that the best way to advance would be lands from the attacks of the dispossessed Irish. St Mary’s to organise a public activity prior to a further project meeting to be held on Thursday 15 June. This activity Abbey, situated on the north side of the Liffey (it gave its would take the form of a district clean-up organised name to Abbey Street and Mary St) was established in the th from the parking area in front of the Church of 12 century. The Cistercian monks were the leading farmers and stock breeders of their day and the lands of Ireland Church on Saturday 10 June from 10.30am to Monkstown and the fishery at Bullock supplied food for 12.30pm. This event would be announced by large the monastery. During the next four hundred years the posters and in the June issue of Monkstown Voice. monastery grew in wealth and at the time of the The aim of the 15 June Meeting would be the formal Reformation St Mary’s Abbey was the wealthiest establishment of a Tidy District Committee with monastery in the country. In its heyday, the castle was at arrangements for its County Council affiliation. the heart of political and social life in the region and was witness to many important events in our history. When it Follow-up from 4 May: was offered for sale in 1788, it was described as the Neville Keery has agreed with Dean Eaton of Dun second best residence in south Dublin. The castle used to Laoghaire Rathdown County Council that the have a third tower, probably to the east and a stream and following equipment will be available on the clean up large pond with gardens formed part of the grounds in the day: Six litter-pickers, 25 strong plastic bags, and a nineteenth century. In the 1830s it was proposed using the supply of gloves. Some high-viz jackets may also be grounds for the establishment of Dublin zoo. Looking available. The Council to be advised as to the around the castle today, there is some interesting detail in preferred date and time for the collection of the remaining large tower to the south.