The Irish Council of Churches
- The Irish Council of Churches: 1923 – 1983 by Rev. Prof. J.M. Barkley 248KB
- ICC Annual Report 2007 632KB
- ICC Annual Report 2006 2MB
Keynote addresses at ICC Annual Meeting April '08
- Future of Marriage & Family Law in Ireland- David Quinn 2nd Apr 2008 32KB
- Marriage Breakdown Maps - Sept 2007 4.2MB
- Bishop Richard Clarke - response to David Quinn’s paper “The Future of Marriage and the family law in Ireland” 2nd Apr 2008 44KB
Some older ICC annual reports are available from the Inter-Church Centre on request
The Irish Inter-Church Meeting
- The Irish Inter-Church Meeting: Background and Developments (1998) 528KB
- Ministering to Inter-Church Couples: Help for Clergy (1999) 224KB
- Charta Oecumenica 92KB
3 presentations on the Charta Oecumenica by IICC 2006
- by Ian Ellis 44KB
- by Tom Norris 36KB
- by Brendan Leahy 28KB
This is a publication of the IICM Working Party on Spirituality, regarding the current challenges facing Christianity in Ireland in relating to Irish Society and culture. The title of the book is a quotation from Gerard Manley Hopkin’s poem “God’s grandeur”
IICC Study day 2007
- Bilateral Dialogues – Dame Mary Tanner 92KB
- Methodist Roman Catholic International Commission – Gillian Kingston 28KB
- WARC–Roman Catholic Dialogue – Bishop Tony Farquhar 12KB
- Leuenberg Fellowshop – Prof JC McCullough 28KB
- Methodist-Anglican Dialogue – Rev Peter Thompson 48KB
The Inter-Church Committee on Social Issues
The four resources below plus others regarding social issues are available at the ICCSI web site: www.iccsi.ie
- Challenged by ignorance: Responding to Stranger in our midst – selected papers from the Conference held at Dromantine Nov '05
- Some reflections on Racism in Ireland by Rt Rev Michael Jackson May '06
- Inter-Cultural Insights – Christian reflection on racism, hospitality and identity
- Research Project into Aspects of the Religious Life of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Immigrants in the Republic of Ireland- produced for the Irish Council of Churches
The Department of Social Issues
The Department of Social Issues was reconstituted as the Inter-Church Committee on Social Issues (ICCSI) in 2005.
- Recommendations of the Report of the Working Party on Sectarianism (1993) 104KB
- Roots of Sectarianism in Ireland (1993) Background paper by Dr. J. Liechty 364KB
- Young People and the Church (1990) 676KB
- The Challenge of the City (1990) 720KB
The Department of Theological Questions
Inter-Church Reconciliation Fund for Ireland (ICRFI)
The Churches’ Peace Education Programme
Bible Study Material, Titles in the ‘What the Bible Says About...’ Series:
- What the Bible says about Peace 116KB
- What the Bible says about Violence 124KB
- What the Bible says about Justice 148KB
- What the Bible says about Reconciliation 156KB
- What the Bible says about Poverty 196KB
- What the Bible says about the Stranger 320KB
The Faith and Politics Group
The Faith and Politics Group was an independent inter-church group drawing its members from different Christian traditions.
- Boasting; Self-righteous Collective Superiority as a Cause of Conflict (1999) 368KB
- Transitions (2001) 264KB
- Time to Heal: Perspectives on Reconciliation (2002) 336KB
- Towards Peace and Stability? A Critical Assessment of the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1988) 340KB
- Forgive us our Trespasses? Reconciliation & Political Healing in Northern Ireland (1996) 216KB
- Doing onto Others - Parity of esteem in a contested space (1997) 304KB
- Remembrance and Forgetting: Building a future in Northern Ireland (1998) 240KB
Resource by Dr David Stevens (past General Secretary)
Other
- Partnership & Twinning - Some guidelines for local churches 52KB
- What is Ecumenism – essay by Alison Wallace 36KB
- Books on Ireland – A selected bibliography 2004 36KB
- Refugee Poster A4 56KB
- Orthodoxy in Ireland by Fr Godfrey O’Donnell May '06 12KB
- “God in a secular world” - His Excellency Francis Campbell, Ambassador to the Holy See, address at Greenhills Ecumenical Conference Jan ‘08 104KB
Available from Bookshops
- Conflict, Controversy and Co-operation: ‘The Irish Council of Churches and the Troubles’ 1968-1972 by Rev Dr N Taggart (Columba Press £6.99) - Amazon.co.uk
- Migration Principles - Statement for Churches working on Migration -
£5.00 from CTBI
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