St Philip’s Church celebrated its 150th anniversary with a flower festival, a history exhibition and plenty of socialising over refreshments on the weekend of 12–14 May 2017. The festivities kicked off with the official opening of the flower festival by noted biologist, environmentalist and broadcaster Éanna Ní Lamhna on the…
Sandford & St Philip’s Milltown Craft Group * New initiative * First gathering: Monday 20 March at 7pm in Cinnamon, Ranelagh A community group to meet regularly to pool resources and ideas and to work towards the goal of supplying the stalls at the Christmas & Spring Bazaars. All welcome!
St Philip’s hosted its third Art Sale and Exhibition from 3 to 6 November in the Parish Hall. The event was opened on Thursday 3 November by Patrick J. Murphy, a past Chairman of the Arts Council of Ireland and Art Adviser to the President. Patrick has also just published…
Though from the outside little seems different, inside the organ huge changes are taking place. At the moment repairs and alterations to the great soundboard are being made before the installation of new pipes to replace old damaged ones. Once this is completed, a whole array of new sounds will…
The organ of St Philip’s was completed in February 1939, replacing a Telford organ built in 1896, which is now in All Saints’ Church, Grangegorman. The new organ made use of theatre organ technology, and reports at the time considered it to be state of the art. Unfortunately, the experimental…
Our annual Summer Music at Sandford series concluded on Friday 26 August in spectacular fashion with a witty and entertaining piano duet recital by Jonathan Lycett and Stuart Nicholson, which completed a series of great musical variety and consistently high quality. Our thanks to all the performers, and also to…
The 2016 St Philip’s Art Sale and Exhibition will take place in St Philip’s Parish Hall from Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 November. Opening Night with guest speaker and refreshments is at 7.30 pm on Thursday 3 November and the exhibition continues on: Friday 4 November: 3 pm to 8…
We had a great day in Sandford Church on 21 May at our hymnathon when we were joined by various organists and choirs, with people dropping in and out throughout the day. We sang a total of ninety hymns! Thanks to those of you who took the time to drop…
With nearly 60 people in attendance at the St Philip’s annual table quiz earlier in February, St Philip’s Hall was filled with the sound of ticking brains, whispered murmurings and clinking glasses! This has become a popular event in St Philip’s calendar when everyone present can be assured of a…