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 Church is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. As part of the celebrations we are having a flower festival and exhibition running from 12 to 14 May. The official opening will take place on the evening of Thursday 11 May and the celebrations will close with a special…
Dáil Visit The SandMillers’ outing on 9 November was to the Dáil, by kind invitation of Eamon Ryan, Green Party. After a lovely lunch in the members’ restaurant and a pleasant chat, Eamon took us on an informative tour of the building, telling of its history and use today. Leinster…
The Choral Scholars have been very busy lately, singing at a function for the mental health charity Aware in the Shelbourne Hotel, as well as at choral compline, family service and the Advent Carol Service. There are vacancies for new members after Christmas, so if you know of any young…
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…
St Philip’s 150th The celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of St Philip’s Parish will take place over the weekend of 12–14 May 2017. Celebrations will include a flower festival, exhibition and special service. Flower festival Various groups associated with the parish and the local community are being approached about…
The Strollers continued walking during the summer months and even though the numbers were smaller than in previous months we enjoyed each of our walks. In July we visited St Anne’s Park in Clontarf, walking through the grounds of the property, which previously was owned by one of the Guinness…
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…
The project continues to gather momentum and the recent granting of planning permission means that we can move towards the construction phase. The job will shortly be put out to tender with building probably commencing in Spring 2017. There are now 37 plots ‘booked’ and prices are fixed to the…