St Audoen’s Church in Dublin is set to usher in a new era in campanology as its own volunteer ringers revive the art on Sunday for the first time in over a century. The modest society of bell ringers met recently to mark the occasion, which follows years of the bells being rung by volunteers from neighbouring churches. Kathleen McEndoo, who chaired the meeting and learned the skill in the late 1960s, said that the bells were in a bad state when she first began ringing them but were restored in 1983. The new generation of ringers includes younger people in their 30s and 40s.
