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The Hill of Armagh will be \u2018open to visitors\u2019 on St Patrick\u2019s Day to celebrate our patron saint.<\/p>\nThe Hill of Armagh will be \u2018open to visitors\u2019 on St Patrick\u2019s Day to celebrate our patron saint.<\/p>\n
St Patrick\u2019s Church of Ireland Cathedral will hold two services to mark the day. \u00a0The Holy Communion will be celebrated in Irish at 10.00am. \u00a0This will be followed by a Sung Eucharist at 11.00am, when the celebrant and preacher will be the Dean of Armagh. The Cathedral will remain open to visitors until 4.00pm.<\/p>\n
\u20184 Vicars\u2019 Restaurant and Tea Room will open\u00a0its\u00a0normal\u00a0hours over\u00a0the St Patrick’s Festival weekend, including Sunday Lunch on Mothering Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0Closed on Monday, 4Vicarswill open\u00a0on St Patrick’s Day itself from 10.00am to 3.00pm to serve delicious homemade scones, cakes, cookies, soup with homemade wheaten bread and open sandwiches.<\/p>\n
Armagh Public Library and No 5 Vicars\u2019 Hill will be open from 12.00pm until 4.00pm to welcome visitors. \u00a0Examples of items on display in both buildings, with particular reference to St Patrick and his legacy, include the reproduction of the Book of Armagh, written in 807, and recording events in Patrick\u2019s life; costume designs by the artist, William Conor, for a pageant held in 1932 to celebrate the fifteen hundredth anniversary of St Patrick\u2019s coming ashore at Saul, County Down; and a small collection of four-sided iron bells, characteristic of the early Irish Church, which were used in worship and would have been familiar to St Patrick.<\/p>\n
The Very Revd Gregory Dunstan, Dean of Armagh and Keeper of Armagh Public Library, said, \u201cArmagh owes its identity, more than anything else, to its inheritance from the earliest years of Christianity, centred on St Patrick\u2019s foundation on this Hill. \u00a0In this tradition stand saints like Malachy and scholars like Ussher. \u00a0The tradition flowered anew in the eighteenth century \u2018renaissance\u2019 of the City, and in the nineteenth century building of the Roman Catholic Cathedral. We are proud to celebrate our part in this inheritance, and in the enduring faith \u2018once delivered to the saints\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
The usual admission charges to the Cathedral and No 5 Vicars\u2019 Hill will be waived on St Patrick\u2019s Day. \u00a0Admission to Armagh Public Library is free. \u00a0Donations are welcome in all three buildings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"