St Patrick’s Day Broadcast from Ireland’s National Cathedral
The BBC’s Sunday Morning Service on 17 March will come from St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin – a place of worship for over eight hundred years – and will be broadcast on Radio 4 from 8.10am and Radio Ulster from 10.03am.
This Service of Matins, a traditional form of Anglican worship in mornings, will be introduced by the Dean of St Patrick’s, the Very Revd Dr William Morton, and led by the Dean’s Vicar, Canon Charles Mullen. The preacher will be Canon Simon Doogan, rector of Ballyholme Parish in Bangor, County Down.
Music will be led by Stuart Nicholson, as Master of the Music, and the organist will be Dr Harry Meehan. The service will include an anthem by the Dublin–born composer Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924), who had connections with St Patrick’s in his early years while growing up in the city.
The programme will be available to play back after broadcast AT THIS LINK.