Ireland Yearly Meeting will be held on 9 – 12 April 2026 at the Dominican Retreat Centre in Tallaght, Dublin.

The theme for IYM 2026 is Deepening our Spirituality. Here is the latest version of the programme (20.02.2026).

Note that Ireland Junior Yearly Meeting will be held just before IYM, on 2 – 6 April 2026 at the Moyallon Centre, Co. Down.

Financial Support

Ireland Yearly Meeting (IYM) encourages as many Members and Attenders as possible to join us at Yearly Meeting. We are keen that the costs of attending should, therefore, not be a barrier to your participation. Funding is available for those who wish to apply for financial assistance

You can obtain more information about how to apply for financial assistance in this bursary information sheet.

Registration, Meals and Onsite Accommodation

The Dominican Retreat Centre has 28 single rooms available on site. The cost for 3 nights, per person, including all meals (breakfast, lunch, and supper), will be €360/£313. To register for IYM 2026, book meals or request onsite accommodation, please use this link.

If you are unsure about whether you require meals, you can return to the survey and complete it a 2^nd time, including meals as required.  You will be required to complete the survey in full again however.  

Meals for Under 25’s are being provided, free of charge, this year to encourage Young Friends and their families to join us.

The deadline for meal bookings is Thursday 19th of March. Meals for U25’s must still be “booked” however no charge will be issued to you.

The deadline for onsite accommodation bookings has passed! However, there remain a small number of rooms available. Please email office@quakers.ie if you wish to book one of these rooms or get on a waiting list. If more Friends wish to book than there are rooms available, preference will be given to those wishing to stay all three nights.

If you requested accommodation at the Dominican Retreat Centre earlier, you should be receiving confirmation of your booking soon (if you haven’t received it already).

Payment for meals and/or accommodation can be made via bank transfer (Euro or Sterling) or by card, in-person only with Mary.  Payment over the phone cannot be taken.  The office will issue Friends with invoices for all meals/accommodation booked.

Other Accommodation

For those who will be staying in local hotels, we advise early booking. The following local hotels are within reasonable walking distance of the venue for those with good mobility (although Friends are, of course, not limited to these):

The Maldron Hotel, Tallaght (about 20 minutes walk): info.Tallaght@maldronhotels.com. Tel. (01) 468 5400

The Plaza Hotel, Tallaght (about 15 minutes walk): reservations@plazahotel.ie.   Tel. (01) 462 4200

Glashaus Hotel, Tallaght (about 20 minutes walk): reception@glashaushotel.ie.  Tel. (01) 538 1410.

Tallaght Cross Hotel (about 24 minutes walk): info@tallaghtcrosshotel.ie, Tel. (01) 541 3400.

Public Transportation to IYM 2026

The Dominican Retreat Centre is about a 20 minute walk from the Tallaght Luas stop at one end of the Luas Red Line (Google map directions from Tallaght Luas to venue).  

The following bus routes also service the area around the venue; 27, 54a, 65, 75, and 75a. The   transport for Ireland website can assist with journey planning.

The Luas Red Line services both Heuston and Connolly Stations out to Tallaght.

Parking at the Dominican Retreat Centre

Two photos from above show the area of free parking for those attending IYM and the parking area where you must pay to avoid being clamped.

Volunteering to help at IYM 2026

There are a lot of jobs to be done at IYM 2026 – collecting meal tickets, being a roving microphone steward, helping at the fundraising and book stalls and more. Most of these jobs don’t require any previous experience, and you’ll be given clear instructions about what to do.

You can indicate how you would like to help out at IYM 2026 by filling out this volunteer form.

Special Interest Groups

Following feedback from Friends last year, we have decided to hold Special Interest Groups in-person only at this year’s Yearly Meeting.

SATURDAY 11.30-1.00 (locations to e determined)

1. Meet the Public Lecturer

An opportunity to ask questions and engage in discussion with our Public Lecturer Brian Maguire and other interested Friends.

2. Eco-spirituality and ecological crisis

Speakers: Sue Saunders (Monkstown Meeting), Niamh Hardiman (Churchtown Meeting)

Climate breakdown is the most serious problem facing all of humanity and what is needed to bring about the necessary transformation of human and political priorities is a profound change in moral, cultural, and spiritual values. The transformation of priorities that the world needs can grow from a deep engagement with the spiritual and cultural resources that are at the heart of all the world’s great religious traditions. The purpose of this Special Interest Group is to explore some aspects of the transformative potential of contemplative spirituality in the context of systematic environmental degradation.

3. ‘Live a listening life’ – A Meeting for Worship for Learning Exploring the Writings of Thomas Kelly

Facilitators: Megan Corrigan and James Nelson

This SIG will offer an occasion for participants to gather in a reflective manner to inquire together, listen deeply and share insights into the writings of the Quaker mystic, Thomas Kelly. As well as an opportunity for deepening individual spirituality participants may find in the format something they can take back to their own PMs to explore the spiritual growth of their meeting.

SATURDAY 4.00-5.30 (locations to e determined)

1. Friends House Moscow

Speaker: Sergei Nikitin.

Sergei has written extensively about the Quaker Aid missions to Russia in the terrible years after WW I and the Russian Revolution. He has a particular interest in an Irish Friend, Dorice White, who was the last Quaker in Stalin’s Russia. She left Moscow (where she held down the first incarnation of Friends House Moscow) only in 1931.

2. Quaker Peace activism

Speaker: Adam Grennan

This will start with a short film, outlining the origins of the Golden Rule Project and more recent developments in the story involving Quaker involvement in an anti-nuclear movement that began in the late ‘50’s and continues to this day, ultimately leading to the formation of Greenpeace.

3. Guided Walk in the immediate area

Public Lecture

Our Public Lecture, Events from the Real World. will be given by artist Brian Maguire. and will reflect on his experience of using painting to address issues of social injustice and social malfunction. It will be possible to attend either in-person, at the Dominican Retreat Centre, Tallaght, Dublin, or online via a Zoom webinar.

You are automatically registered for the Public Lecture if you are registered for IYM 2026. If you are not attending IYM 2026, you can register for the Public Lecture at this registration link.

You can help spread word about the Public Lecture among Friends and friends using this flyer.

Brian Maguire was born in Bray, and studied at the National College of Art in Dublin during 1969 – 1974. Brian works from studios in Dublin and has been exhibited widely internationally.

In his lecture, Brian will reflect on his experience of using painting to address issues of social injustice and social malfunction. He will discuss his motivations and make observations on his work,  focusing on a number of his paintings over the 40 years of his career.  

His early work was generated by a sizeable anger felt, at the unfairness of people’s reality.  He started working abroad with community groups and in prisons, first working in Irish Prisons, and then in Maze/ Long Kesh, teaching and building friendships with prisoners from political informed armed groups. 

Through such projects Brian has become deeply aware of the divisions of the world and how the erasure of some people takes place in our society.  In jails, migrant hubs and homeless shelters, we can find the excluded – issues he has explored by working with families of the victims of the US President’s War on Drugs, in the Mediterranean Sea,  in Aleppo and in the Arizona desert, where migrants have lost their lives trying to reach the USA. Brian has also tried to express issues affecting the indigenous people in the Amazon, following the encouragement of a friend, Fr Pat Clarke. 

In March 2026, Brian will be presenting works in two shows, one in Dublin in the Rua Red Art Centre in Tallaght and one in the Irish Art Centre in New York.  Tallaght is showing a large group of charcoal drawings of men from all over the world who were temporarily resident in the UN protection site in West Dublin operated by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

All those who register for IYM 2026 will automatically be registered for the Public Lecture. A separate link for registration for the Public Lecture for those not coming to IYM 2026 will be given here once it is available.

Art Exhibition: The Spirituality of Creativity

We know that many Friends are very creative, in various fields, from poetry to painting, music to textiles and in many other mediums. We want to celebrate that creativity in an exhibition at the Retreat Centre, and of course at the social gathering on the Saturday evening of Yearly Meeting.

So if you have something you would like to share as an individual, or if your Meeting or Children’s and Young Friends would like to produce something together – a painting, a wall-hanging, a poem or whatever – please get going and being creative. Likewise if there is a piece of art at your Meeting House that is very meaningful to you, please bring
it along. We will be in touch nearer the time to see what is coming.

If you have any queries, contact IYMClerk@quakers.ie.