Friends will be participating in Dublin Pride on Saturday 29^th June, carrying the DAQC banner with the words ‘Dublin Area Quaker Community – Peace, Equality, Simplicity, Integrity’. 

Taking part will be a practical and visible way to demonstrate our testimony to equality, letting people know that Quaker Meetings offer a safe, welcoming and supportive space to all. 

It is not necessary to identify as LGBTQIA+ to take part (many Pride participants are allies – supporters, friends or family members).

If  you’d  like to  be  part  of  the  Quaker  contingent,  please get  in  touch  with  Fiona  Murdoch  via  the office. You can let other Friends know about the event using this DAQC Dublin Pride flyer.
Email – office@quakers.ie   Phone: 014998003 

Junior Meeting will be held as part of the Monkstown Quaker Meeting for Worship 10.30-11.30 on the 2nd Sunday of every month starting on June 9, 2024.

All children are welcome and no booking is required.

Any queries please email monkstownpm@gmail.com

A talk on this topic will be given by Sharon Gustafsson of Sweden Yearly Meeting at Churchtown Meeting House on June 5 2024 at 11-12, with chat beforehand from 10.30. Information about joining the coffee morning online can be found in this flyer.

You may have heard that the theme for the upcoming Ireland Yearly Meeting in Cork during 17-21 July 2024 is “The Spirit of Ubuntu”. Of course we’re all looking forward to IYM 2024, and we have faith that our Programme Committee has chosen the theme well – but what is Ubuntu?

The Yearly Meeting Clerk, Will Haire, has written a short document called What Does Ubuntu Mean? for all of us for whom this word is new. Feel free to download this text at the link above to get a better idea of what awaits us at IYM 2024 as we explore this theme.

The theme for this year’s Ecumenical Bible Week is ‘Peace and justice in a troubled world’, referencing the phrase from Psalm 85 ‘Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other’. There are four separate events taking place on May 19, 20, 23 and 26. All four will be held in a blended format (in person and online).

The symposium held on Thursday May 23 may be of particular interest; the speakers include Janet Scott (Britain Yearly Meeting), Rabbi Yoni Wieder (Chief Rabbi in Ireland) and Dr Jessie Rogers (Dean of Theology Faculty, Maynooth University), who will address the topic: ‘Are peace and justice compatible?’

Here you can download the full programme; further information can be found at the Ecumenical Bible Week website.

This book written by Cork Friend Larry Lynn Southard and published in 2023 aims to provide a “handbook to help readers place themselves in a position that makes divine guidance a daily reality”. Sources of inspiration for the book include the life of Jesus of Nazareth, the Gospel of Thomas, the Tao Te Ching and, not least, Quakerism.

Reviews of the book written by Marjorie A. Lamb (Roscrea) and E. Heather Bewley (Churchtown) have been included in the Friendly Reflections section of this website. More reviews will be added as they become available.

You can find more information, including how to purchase the book, at the website https://wayfaring-a-guide-to-guidance.webnode.page. There will also be copies on sale at the bookstall at Ireland Yearly Meeting 2024.

Monkstown Friends are hosting a discussion on the topics

What the community of Irish Friends means to you.

How do your Quaker values influence your wider day to day life?

Further information can by found in this DAQC flyer.

The Dublin Monthly Meeting Peace Committee is arranging 2 events for Saturday 18th May, at 11:30am and 1.15pm, Dublin city centre.

1. A public Quaker Peace Witness (with our Quaker Peace Witness banner and leaflets) to take place at the entrance to St Stephen’s Green / top of Grafton St, Dublin from 11.30am to 12.25pm.

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2. Participation as a Quaker group with Quaker Peace Witness banner (and leaflets) in the Ireland – Palestine Solidarity march which starts outside The Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square East, Dublin at 1.30pm. For this we suggest that in order to find one another in the crowded area that we meet outside the Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square North at 1.15 / 1.20pm.

You are welcome to come along and give witness to the Quaker silent voice at one or both of these events (and to interact with any members of the public who may like to hear what the Quaker Peace Testimony and the Quaker Peace Witness are about).

The organisers invite you to join an international group of Young Adult Quakers (age 18-35) to explore how we are transformed and gathered together by the Spirit.

Although the gathering won’t look like the well known painting used as the featured image for this post – The Presence in the Midst (painted at Jordans over a century ago) – it is important to ask what the idea behind this image could mean for us today. 

More information can be found in this downloadable flyer.

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.