Young people aged 14+ are very welcome at Senior Moyallon Camp, which is being held at the Moyallon Centre on July 5-12, 2024. You can learn more from this Senior Moyallon Camp leaflet. You can also download the SMC 2024 application/consent form. The deadline for applications is Saturday June 21, 2024 ..read more

The Ireland Yearly Meeting 2024 Public Lecture, Ubuntu: A Profound Universal Value and our Hope for World Peace, will be given by Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge. The talk will take place at 7.30pm on July 19, 2024 in the Boole 1 Lecture Theatre at University College Cork, and also online. Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge has been the Director of the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva since November 2021. A South African Quaker, she is a pacifist and lifelong campaigner for human rights and justice. The Public Lecture is free of charge. You can register at the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PGDQ8 ..read more

Everyone from the ages of 10-14 is very welcome at Junior Moyallon Camp, which is being held at the Moyallon Centre on June 22-23, 2024. The dedicated team of leaders will make sure everyone feels comfortable for the duration of their stay. Come and share in both the fun and spiritual side of camp life! This year’s theme is LIMITLESS. Join us as we explore the Limitlessness of God! You’ll get lots of opportunities to learn more about this topic through workshops, art and discussion. There will also be plenty of outdoor games, an offsite activity, the famous Moyallon campfire and much more! You ..read more

Ecologically-minded Friends may be interested in this `retreat in the heart of Nature’ hosted by the Centre for Wild Spirituality in Ards Friary, Donegal, from 25th-29th August 2024. You can expect a slow and reflective agenda, delicious meals, good company with international retreatants, and gentle invitations to deepen into your own wild spirituality as you wander and wonder on the spectacular Ards peninsula. Led by deeply grounded teachers who have invested their lives in restoring intimate relationship with the land, morning sessions will provide a foundation for contemplative wanderi ..read more

A talk on this topic will be given by Rachel M. Bewley-Bateman at Churchtown Meeting House on May 1 2024 at 11-12. Information about joining the coffee morning online can be found in this flyer ..read more

The Quaker Council for European Affairs has worked with the American Friends Service Committee, Canadian Friends Service Committee, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Friends World Committee for Consultation, Quakers in Britain, Quaker Peace and Social Witness, and the Quaker United Nations Office to write a statement on peace in Palestine and Israel. The Clerk of Ireland Yearly Meeting, Will Haire, has signed this statement on behalf of Ireland Yearly Meeting. At the bottom of the statement, there is a link for Quaker meetings – and individuals – to sign if they wish. Please feel ..read more

You can now download a draft programme for IYM 2024. Updated versions will be posted as they become available ..read more

As in previous years, we are planning to host Special Interest Groups (SIGs) online on the days leading up to our Yearly Meeting, which will be held in Cork from 17-21 July 2024. These online sessions give Friends the opportunity to discuss issues of interest, explore concerns and topics of interest to them. IYM Programme Committee wishes to put together a varied and interesting selection of SIGs with a variety of topics, activities and concerns from individuals or groups, young and not so young. These will be run online in the evenings from Sunday 7th to Wednesday 10 July. SIGs run for betwee ..read more

Máire Ní Mheibhric, Human Rights Monitor, will talk about her recent first-hand experience in the Occupied West Bank at the Waterford Quaker Meeting House on Sunday April 28 at 2.30pm. More information is given in this flyer ..read more

Monkstown Friends invite you to an afternoon gathering on the theme Spirituality and Ecology: How are they linked? How can we make a difference? The gathering will take place on Saturday 27 April during 1.00-4.30 at Monkstown Meeting House. You’ll find more information in this leaflet. To register for the gathering, please email monkstownpm@gmail.com by 24 April ..read more