The exhibition at the Lexicon Library, Dun Laoghaire “George Fox (1624-1691) and the Irish Quaker Tradition” is running over 6 weeks starting on Wednesday Sept. 4. A different talk is featured on most Wednesday evenings of the exhibition.

The talk on October 2 will be “The Quaker Contribution to Irish Education”, presented by Clodagh Grubb. From the start Quakers believed that education was of primary importance for all, rich and poor, male and female. In the early nineteenth century they were main movers in the development of the Irish National School system, and later Anne Jellicoe pioneered third-level education for women with the creation of Alexandra College.