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  In May 2021 the Heritage Council of Ireland awarded the Methodist Historical Society of Ireland a grant of €15,000. This was used to fund the second phase of a major project to digitise over 150 years of Irish Methodist ...

The Library and Archives has now been reopened on an appointment only basis on Wednesday and Thursday mornings between 9.30 and 12.30. Please contact the Secretary via email if an appointment is desired at: secretary@methodisthistoryireland.org

Read all about: Roger Lamb (1756-1830): Soldier and Writer, Schoolmaster at Whitefriar Street [Dublin] by Dr Kenneth Ferguson. Including appendices:  I: Roger Lamb’s Family; II: Lamb’s Service in America; III: On Being a Methodist in the Army in Lamb’s Time; IV: Lamb’s Obituarist, ...

Read all about: Sacred Harmony in Irish Methodism by Professor Desmond Hunter; Accounting for Blacklion by Dr Brian Turner; Principals’ Portraits by Dr Richard N. Clutterbuck; Great Anxiety was Felt with Reference to the Condition of Springfield by Professor Colin ...

Read all about: Methodists in Ireland: Political Identities and Changing Contexts, by Dr Fergus O’Ferrall; ‘Your own for ever, Sis’: Letters to Parsonstown, 1898-1901 by Rosemary Raughter; The Ups and Downs of Methodist Temperance by Robin P. Roddie – and ...

From the Irish Christian Advocate, 6 February 1931. Rumour has it that a lady on entering one of our principal city churches was greeted at the door by a steward, who, seeing that she was a stranger, prepared to lead ...

The Park Superintendent at St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin from at least 1889 was the Methodist John Kearney. He kept the park well stocked with waterfowl and, for the most part, his probably seemed an idyllic career. However, during the traumatic ...

A complete index to all those who have served in any branch of Methodism in Ireland, for however long or short a period, from 1747 to the present, is now available through the History Online/Ministers tab. The first Wesleyan Methodist ...

Read all about: Charles Wesley in Ireland (1747–1748): A Reconstruction from Primary Sources by Professor Kenneth G.G. Newport; United Methodism, Ecumenism and Ecclesiology by Professor William J. Abraham; Irish Methodist Lay Officers Who’s Who – a list of 100 Irish ...