evidence: On his appointment to succeed Canon Hartin in September 1989, he had had twenty-three years’ experience of both TCD and the Church of Ireland ordination training, so was well placed to take on his new role, heading up a course that had seen many changes over the past quarter centuryThe increasing number of women in training, had an immediate effect for good on the life of the College [...] The greatest change of the decade was the increasing number of women in training, which, though unpopular in some quarters, had an immediate effect for good on the life of the College. Over twenty years later it is generally agreed that it has had an important (and improving) effect on the life of the Church of Ireland as a whole. In 1993, having spent five years in the Theological College as Lecturer in Applied Theology, the Revd Ginnie Kennerley, one of the first women ordained in the Church of Ireland, moved on to an incumbency in Glendalough diocese. Her position was assigned in 1994 to the Revd Jeremy Young, a Church of England priest of some thirteen years’ parochial experience with a strong interest in social psychology. There were further staff changes in the Theological College towards the turn of the millennium: in 1998, a new lecturer in Church History and Theology, Dr Andrew Pierce, was appointed and the post held by Tom Gordon was re-designated Director of Extra- Mural Studies in 1996, his chaplaincy position being allotted to Revd Norman McCausland.