Each year, a fundraising sale in support of IQFA is held in Dublin in December.
This year, the sale will be held on Saturday December 5 at Monkstown Meeting House. For now, mark the date in your calendar, and more information will be posted about this fun and worthwhile event once it is available!
The date of the annual Lecture of the Quaker Historical Committee has been fixed for Wednesday 30 September at 7 o’clock in the National Maritime Museum, Dun Laoghaire. It will be in-person only.
The lecture is entitled ‘Lighting the Sea, the John R Wigham story.’
Jonathan Wigham will speak about his distinguished great-grandfather, John R. Wigham, an engineer who pioneered developments in gas lighting, who is particularly famous for his inventions for lighthouses and on buoys. His products were used literally all over the world. The enormous lens or optic from the Bailey Lighthouse, installed in 1902, is now housed in the National Maritime Museum, Dun Laoghaire and will be switched on during the lecture. Originally it emitted two million candlepower! John Wigham was offered a knighthood on two occasions but turned down both as being against Quaker belief in equality.
The lecture will be accompanied by slide show, and a collection will be held on behalf of the Historical Library.
You can find some more information in this flyer about the lecture.
In 1937, the well known American Quaker Rufus M Jones wrote “…I have become a good deal disillusioned over ‘big’ conferences and large gatherings. I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles, in which vital and transformative events take place.”
It is in the spirit of these words that you are invited to set time aside on the third Saturday of each month, when the Limerick Meeting House will be open for an hour from 2.00-3.00pm for those who wish to join others silently “sitting for peace”.
The next of these monthly silent vigils for peace will take place on Saturday 19th Aug from 2.00 – 3.00pm.
Please feel free to invite others to share this time of holding an intention for peace in silence together.
For World Quaker Day this year FWCC is holding a massive global online worship meeting, lasting 8+ hours, themed Let Peace Be Among Us. Each hour of worship will be hosted by a different part of the world where prayers for peace are particularly needed. While the worship will span many hours, we’re expecting most people will join for an hour or two.
Date: 4th October 2026
Time: Starting 12.00 noon Irish Time, lasting for 6 hours; Friends in New Zealand will end the day at 11pm Irish Time with a final hour reflection on peace and justice.
Where: Online via Zoom
You can find more information at the World Quaker Day 2026 webpage.
Culture Night is coming up on Friday, September 18. A great variety of cultural events will be held all over Ireland.
Eustace Street Friends Meeting House will be open on Culture Night during 16.30 – 20.30pm. For more information, see https://culturenight.ie/event/quakers-in-dublin-light-silence-peace/
Help will be needed with things like door keeping, tea, logistics, and chatting with visitors about Quaker practice. If you would like to volunteer to help at this event, please contact Marianne through the Office (office@quakers.ie).
If you’ve already signed up no worries, you’ll be contacted shortly.
This Churchtown Coffee Morning will be given by Jenny and Ann Haughton on Tuesday 1 September during 10.30-12.00.
You can find more information, including the Zoom link for joining online in this flyer.
This talk will be given by Charles Lamb on Saturday August 22 at 3.00pm in the Ballitore Library and Quaker Museum. The talk will be free of charge.
Abrahan Shackleton was a man with a sensitive conscience who endeavoured to live what he believed to be true as a Member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The talk will consider Shackleton’s legacy and its pertinence today.
For further information, contact ballitorelib@kildarecoco.ie .
The recently established Sojourner Truth House is a small, community-based house of hospitality in Calais, France, offering a place of welcome, rest, safety, and dignity to women and children navigating displacement along the UK-France border, together with those accompanying them.
You can learn more about the Sojourner Truth House in this flyer, which also provides links to where you can find further information.
South Belfast Quakers have been raising funds to support Sojourner Truth House through a series of Summer lunches following Meeting for Worship – the last one is on August 30. Don’t miss it!
Dublin Monthly Meeting Peace Committee has a deep concern following the publication of a United Nations report by Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
This report shows that Allianz Insurance has strong financial links with the State of Israel, including buying Israeli Government bonds. These links can contribute to financing of the State of Israel’s campaign against the Palestinian people, including bombing, killing, blockading aid and illegally occupying Palestinian land.
The Dublin Monthly Meeting Peace Committee suggests that you consider whether you or your businesses have insurance policies either directly with Allianz, or through a broker or other insurance company who have their policies underwritten by Allianz We hope that all Friends will reconsider their insurance policies in this light.
You can read the UN Report at this link.
The free public lecture “The Cross and the Olive Tree: Theology amid Gaza”, based on the book by the same name, will be given by Samuel Salim Munayer on Thursday 6 August at 10.00am at the Trinity College Dublin E3 Building, Room 2.031.
You can find more information and spread the word using this poster.
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