This week we celebrated the retirement of No 5’s Registry Officer, Stephen Day. Stephen served as the Library’s first ever Registry Officer for almost twelve years.
Stephen was appointed to the new role of Registry Officer in late 2010 before the official opening of No 5 Vicar’s Hill as a museum and a visitor attraction in March 2011. Since then, Stephen has welcomed many thousands of visitors to the building and the examples of the Library’s collections held within.
This has included relating the history of No 5 when first built as the Diocesan Registry, 250 years ago this year. He has also provided an introduction and overview about Armagh Robinson Library and the Hill of Armagh.
Speaking ahead of his retirement, Stephen said,
Since my appointment in 2010, it has been a privilege and a joy to work with everyone on Armagh Robinson Library’s team and to represent these two magnificent Georgian buildings. Visitors of all ages and from all corners of the globe come to this famous ancient hill and it has been very satisfying to promote the culture and history of Armagh, my home county, along with colleagues in the Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum, Armagh County Museum, the former Irish and Local Studies Library and the Cardinal O’Fiaich Library. The excellent staff at the Armagh Visitor Information Centre were also a great help to me and colleagues in the other attractions as we helped make visitors see the best that Armagh has to offer. My thanks to all and my best wishes for the future.
The Assistant Keeper, Carol Conlin, said,
I have had the pleasure of working with Stephen since his appointment as Registry Officer. Willingly and with enthusiasm he has assisted in the delivery, development and promotion of the Library’s various programmes to include school groups, history groups, community groups, overseas tour groups and individual visitors. He has also been willing to host events in No 5 for all ages, from under five-year-olds and their carers to adults who are living with Dementia. We are a small team in the Library, so we will miss this valued colleague. At the same time, we wish him well with his retirement plans and hope to see him back on the Hill of Armagh before too long. Above all, we thank him sincerely for his contributions over the years.
