03 May 2014

A weekend lecture on Achill Island


The ‘Church of Ireland notes’ on p. 20 in The Irish Times this morning [Saturday, 3 May 2014] includes the following paragraphs:

The Heinrich Boll Memorial Weekend takes place on Achill Island this weekend, with a special focus on travel writers and travel writing.

This evening’s programme includes readings in the Church of Ireland parish church of St Thomas, Dugort, while tomorrow morning the programme includes a lecture by the Revd Prof Patrick Comerford, from the Church of Ireland Theological Institute, on “The Achill missionary buildings at Mweelin – history, origins and people.”