In 2024 four Methodist Societies are celebrating the 150th anniversary of their opening: Athy – opened Friday 12 June 1874 at cost of £2,200 of which Alexander Duncan of Athy contributed over half. The service of dedication was conducted by ...
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Feed SubscriptionMHSI Bulletin Volume 27 (2022)
MHSI Bulletin Volume 27 (2022) Contents:– Adam Clarke and the Struggle for Wesley’s Methodism – Peter S. Forsaith ‘The World is my Parish’ – Methodism Mission in stamps – Brian Callan The Methodist New Connexion in Ireland 1798-1905 – Robin ...
Read More »Digitisation Grant Awarded to MHSI Archives
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 ...
Read More »MHSI open for visits by appointment
The Library and Archives are normally open 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 More »2018 (No. 2) Issue of MHSI Bulletin
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 More »2018 (No. 1) Issue of MHSI Bulletin
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 More »2017 Issue of MHSI Bulletin
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 ...
Read More »Local Preachers Sunday – Sunday 9 April 2018
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 ...
Read More »Lucky Ducks
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 ...
Read More »Index of Methodist ministers who have served in Ireland
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 ...
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