Editing Book of Common Prayer (section)

====Ireland====
[[File:Book of Common Prayer (Church of Ireland, 1878, title page).png|thumb|upright|The 1878 prayer book for the use of the Church of Ireland]]
The first printed book in Ireland was in [[English Language|English]], the ''Book of Common Prayer''.<ref name=IreTimes20010417>{{Cite news |title=Printing of Ireland's first book, the 'Book of Common Prayer', to be commemorated |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=17 April 2001 |access-date=4 January 2021 |url= https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/printing-of-ireland-s-first-book-the-book-of-common-prayer-to-be-commemorated-1.302337 }}</ref>

[[William Bedell]] had undertaken an [[Irish Language|Irish]] translation of the ''Book of Common Prayer'' in 1606. An Irish translation of the revised prayer book of 1662 was effected by John Richardson (1664–1747) and published in 1712 as ''Leabhar na nornaightheadh ccomhchoitchionn''. "Until the 1960s, the Book of Common Prayer, derived from 1662 with only mild tinkering, was quite simply ''the'' worship of the church of Ireland."{{sfn|Miller|2006|p=431}} The 1712 edition had parallel columns in English and Irish languages.{{sfn|Richardson|1712}}

After its independence and disestablishment in 1871, the Church of Ireland developed its own prayer book which was published in 1878.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/Ireland.htm |title=The Book of Common Prayer of the Church of Ireland |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=5 June 2019 |website=justus.anglican.org |access-date=30 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ireland.anglican.org/prayer-worship/book-of-common-prayer |title=Book of Common Prayer |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=<!--Not stated--> |website=ireland.anglican.org |access-date=30 June 2022}}</ref> It has been revised several times, and the present edition has been used since 2004.{{sfn|Anon|2004}}