Welcome to the official website of the Irish Association of Change Ringers.

The President of the Irish Association of Change Ringers invites members and their guests to the Autumn Ringing Festival, this year celebrating our 125th Anniversary,  which will be held in the Eastern District, on Saturday and Sunday 21^st and 22^nd October 2023.

On Saturday 21st October ringing has been arranged as follows:

11am – 12.30pm Christ Church Cathedral and St Audoen’s Church

( open simultaneously)

Lunch:  The Goat (D14 PY56) near Taney Church, is suggested.

14.30-16.00pm Christ Church, Taney

17.00 – 18.30pm Christ Church, Bray

The Annual Dinner will be held at 19.30 in the Martello Hotel, Bray. The cost is €30.00 (two courses) or €35.00 (three courses) plus tea/coffee. The menu is attached and choices may be made on the evening. Please could tower correspondents indicate the number of people attending from your tower by contacting Fiona Chamberlain by Saturday 14th October at Iacrgeneralsecretary@bellringingireland.org.

On Sunday morning 22^nd October we are invited to join local service ringing, which takes place at the following times:

Christ Church, Bray:                                                            10.30-10.55am

Christ Church Cathedral:                        10.20 – 10.55am

St Patrick’s Cathedral:                              10.30-11.15am.

St Audoen’s:                                                9.30-10.00am

Ringers are asked to text Robert McDonald at 086-0403726 in advance if they wish to take part in ringing at St Audoen’s, as access is limited.

On Sunday afternoon at 15.15 pm Choral Evensong in St Patrick’s Cathedral will commemorate the IACR’s 125^th Anniversary. There will be ringing from 14.30 to 15.15pm and after the service from 16.30 to 17.15pm.

We look forward to seeing as many of our members as possible at this very enjoyable annual event

General Information

• Safeguarding: In accordance with IACR safeguarding policy, persons under the age of 18 must be accompanied by two adults from their own tower. In addition, host towers are asked to keep a record of all persons attending.
• Photography / videoing: Please note that IACR safeguarding policy and GDPR legislation require that agreement is sought from photograph / video subjects before images can be displayed on social media etc.
• Ringing: All persons will be catered for and so call changes and plain hunt will be rung as well as Grandsire (5, 7 and 9), Plain  Bob (5, 6, 7, 8 and 9) and, if numbers permit, Stedman(5, 7, 9). Cambridge Surprise Minor and Major will also be attempted if numbers permit. If you wish to ring in the methods/ principles, please make sure you have learnt the work before “catching hold”.

Galbriath Cup 2024

Advance Date for your dairy’s 2024 – Galbraith Cup 2024 – due to the busyness of our parish centre in September and the weather we encountered this year for the Galbraith Cup we have moved the competition back a few weeks for next year and confirm that the date for the 4th Annual Galbraith Cup is 24th August 2024. Registration at 12 noon. Competition starts at 1pm. Thanks for coming to this year’s Galbraith Cup.

Brian and Helen – Christ Church, Taney, Dundrum

Association and District Practices Events for October – December 2023: