The Annual Elizabeth Bowen Commemoration will take place on Sunday, 8th September, in St Colman’s Church Farahy at 3.30pm. The service will be Choral Evensong, sung by the Clerks Choral, accompanied at the harmonium by Dr Ian Sexton. The service will be taken by the Rev’d R.B. MacCarthy, former Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. The speaker will be the Rt Rev’d Kenneth Kearon, former Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe.

St Coleman’s Church, Farahy, is closed for regular worship and only opens for the annual commemoration service in memory of Elizabeth Bowen, the celebrated Anglo-Irish author whose home, Bowenscourt, once stood in the adjoining estate. Every year, a distinguished speaker delivers an interesting lecture about her life or writing. Farahy a mile or so west of Kildorrery on the Mallow Road.