A new network is launching ‘Quaker Peacebuilding Network’ for Quakers who are interested and active in local peacebuilding efforts in Britain and Ireland. The online meetings will provide an informal and supportive space to share experiences, difficulties and dilemmas, to identify emerging common challenges and develop ideas.

Given the violence witnessed on our streets the past few days, the Peacebuilding in Britain team in cooperation with Northern Friends Peace Board, will be holding an online space open to Friends from across Britain & Ireland 10am-12pm on Wednesday 7^th August on Zoom. It will be a space for worship, for sharing and thinking together. If you would like to join the network and participate in this online space, please email peacebuildinginbritain@quaker.org.uk

Friends are invited to visit Inchcleraun, also called Quaker Island, Co. Longford on Friday 23 August 2024.

Further information is available on this flyer about the visit.

Numbers are limited so book early! Please contact either Tim Coughlan (Monkstown Meeting) or the Office (office@quakers.ie) to register – no later than Monday 12^th August please.

Eustace Street Friends invite you to join Friends at the FWCC World Plenary in South Africa, along with others joining online from around the world, for a worldwide Meeting for Worship led by African Friends on Sunday August 11.

9.00 am  “All In Worship” led by African Friends

10.00 am Tea, Coffee and Snacks

11.00 am Regular Sunday Meeting for Worship

All are welcome to join for some or all of the morning. Other activities from the FWCC World Plenary may be incorporated into the morning as more details of the programme become available.

Registration with Bernard Quinn (baquinn@gmail.com) is desirable, to help Eustace Street Friends get an idea of numbers.

You can learn more from this flyer about the DAQC Gathering on August 11.

The section of the Quakers in Ireland website called “Friendly Reflections” (https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/friendly-reflections/) aims to make available a wide variety of reflective, thought-provoking pieces. 

Do you have any Friendly Reflections to share? New submissions would be very welcome. You can submit pieces for consideration by emailing them in either Word (.doc, .docx) or text format to editors@quaker.ie.

Texts and videos of some of the talks given at Ireland Yearly Meeting will be made accessible once they are available. This IYM2024 Follow-up page gives links to those available so far, along with the final IYM 2024 programme and some artwork from the IYM2024 Children’s Programme.

You can now download an updated (July 12) programme for IYM 2024.

You can now download an updated (July 12) programme for IYM 2024.

The 400th anniversary of George Fox’s birth is being celebrated all over the Quaker world this year – including in Enniscorthy. You can read a piece from the Enniscorthy Guardian about this event, held last Saturday at the June Leinster Quarterly Meeting.

Free guided walks around the Temple Hill Quaker Burial Ground – one of Dublin’s most unusual graveyards – will be given on Tuesdays in July and August at 4pm. The tour lasts about an hour. More information can be found on this leaflet about the tours.

You can now download an updated (June 21) draft programme for IYM 2024, including four Special Interest Groups to be held on July 7-10 (for descriptions of the SIGs, see the IYM 2024 programme):

Toward Understanding George Fox formation and early message, 1624- 1654

Facilitator or Speaker: Charles B Lamb, Roscrea Date: Sunday 7th of July, 19:30

Eyewitness Account from the Occupied West Bank

Facilitator or Speaker: Máire Ní Mheibhric Date: Monday 8th of July, 19:30

The International crime of Ecocide. What is Ecocide, and what are the promptings of our Quaker Faith and Testimonies when considering this urgent issue?

Facilitator or Speaker: Kate Fletcher (EcoQuakers and South Belfast) Date: Tuesday 9th July, 19:30

4. Fifth Day Worship . How Eustace St Thursday Meeting for Worship went Global

Facilitator or Speaker: Thomas Quearney, Eustace Street (Dublin) Date: Wednesday 10th July, 19:00 (please note earlier start time for this SIG)