This event, organised by the Dublin Area Quaker Community, will take place at Rathfarnham Meeting House from 1.00-4.30pm on Saturday June 8. You can use this downloadable flyer to publicise the event in your Meeting.

The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva seeks a committed and motivated person with considerable knowledge and experience to carry forward QUNO’s work on Peace & Disarmament in the QUNO Geneva office.

Leading the Peace & Disarmament Programme, the Representative will maintain QUNO’s long-term presence and Quaker-grounded work at the United Nations. As a senior staff member and part of a small team, the Representative will help ensure the effective and efficient management of QUNO Geneva. 

Full details and instructions on how to apply can be found at this link: https://quno.org/timeline/2024/4/quno-geneva-seeks-representative-peace-and-disarmament

The closing date for applications is 26 May 2024. 

IYM’s new Youth Support Worker, Kit Harty (Limerick Meeting) has officially started in their post as of May 1, 2024. You can find some more information about Kit and the post at the IYM Youth Support Worker webpage.

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.

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 can learn more from this leaflet. You can also download the JMC 2024 application form. The deadline for applications is May 20, 2024.

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 25^th-29^th 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 wanderings along the coast and in the spectacular Ards forest. The evenings will provide an opportunity to connect more deeply with one another, sharing stories, and witnessing the deepening happening in one another. 

The guides for the retreat will include Victoria Loorz, Director of the Centre for Wild Spirituality, USA; Valerie Serrels, Director of the Wild Church Network; Diarmuid O’Murchú, author of Beyond the Pandemic: Spiritual & Ecological Challenges and the upcoming Ecological Spirituality; Seán Ó’Gaoithín, master gardener at Glenveagh Forest Park; and Craig Chalquist, depth psychologist. 

You can find full details of the retreat and how to book at  www.wildspirituality.earth/ireland2024 Note that registration and full payment are due by May 15, 2024.

If anyone would like to find out more, feel free to get in touch with Fiona Murdoch (Rathfarnham Meeting) who attended last year’s retreat.

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.

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 free to distribute the link to the statement to those in your Meetings.

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

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 between 75-90 minutes and can be facilitated by one or more people, having two or three facilitators often works well.

If you have a topic that you would like to propose, or an idea that F/friends might usefully explore, please send an email containing the title and a short description of the session, together with the proposed facilitators to Siobhan Walshe at charley1siobhan@gmail.com by 22 May 2024 at the latest.