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Rev. BRIAN KENNAWAY

Brian was brought up in North Belfast. After a time in industry he attended Magee University College Londonderry and Trinity College Dublin where he graduated in 1972. He attended Union theological College Belfast and was ordained into the Ministry of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, in 1976.

He served as Assistant Minister in Glengormley Presbyterian Church in North Belfast before becoming Minister of Crumlin Presbyterian Church, County Antrim, in 1977. He is active in the wider Church serving on a number of Boards and Committees of the General Assembly. In the recent past he has served on the "Church & Government Committee" and the "General Board."

He is a life-long member of the Orange Order which he joined 1964. He was Convenor of the Education Committee of the GOLI from 1992 to 2000. In the last decade of its existence the Committee had been pro-active in explaining the core values of Orangeism to interested audiences throughout Ireland.

In September 1998, he visited the United States under the International Visitors Programme (IVP) sponsored by the United States Information Agency (USIA). During this visit he examined the diverse nature of Education and Church Life, as well as examining various Conflict Resolution programmes.

He has contributed various articles on Orangeism for newspapers and journals, as well as being a contributor to the forthcoming Dictionary of Irish Biography.

He serves on the Inter-Departmental Committee, in the Republic of Ireland, for the development of the Boyne Site, and is a regular contributor at the Police College.

He is married with three grown-up children.

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