Irish Ecclesiastical Architecture

The Ecclesiastical Art Review

This journal, which was started to supply a want, has proved to be a great success. Religion and Art have been connected in all ages. There is nothing sectarian in the objects of the journal, and the current number contains a valuable article on " Relics of Religious Art in India." The following extract from a paper on " How we Bury our Dead " contains some excellent sanitary observations:?" Qu...

Encroachments on Ecclesiastical Authority: Taxation, Clerical Immunity, and the Jews

Isma’ili Thesis on the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy

Though it is widely assumed that Sunni Islam does not have an equivalent to the Christian ecclesiastical hierarchy, Shii groups such as the Medieval Ismailis did have an organised teaching, spiritual, and temporal hierarchy. Evidence gathered from primary sources shows that this Ismaili 'ecclesiastical' hierarchy is strictly intertwined with the Ismaili interpretation of Neoplatonic cosmology a...

Irish Correspondence

a banquetting room, has witnessed, during the past year, an amount of hospitality previously unknown within the college walls. In it, on the 26th of February, the President entertained the Lord Lieutenant and a number of other guests at dinner; and on the 5th of March, Dr. J. Brady, M.p.} who had that day been presented with an honorary diploma of fellowship by the college, dined in it as the g...

Irish MedicalJournal

The incidence of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) & Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) are rising in Ireland.1 Both are often undiagnosed and may cause infertility amongst other complications.2 CT/NG screening is not routinely offered during cervical cancer screening. This study aimed to ascertain the feasibility and acceptability of screening for CT/NG at time of smear and to measure the diagnostic yield. S...