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 (30.01.2026).

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 is Thursday 5th March.

We will be allocating rooms at the Dominican Retreat Centre in a priority order, looking to accommodate Yearly Meeting guests, those with limited financial resources and/or mobility issues, those travelling from outside Dublin and those staying all three nights. Once all requests have been accessed, confirmation of successful room bookings will issue on Friday 6th March.

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.

A volunteer form will be available here in due course.

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. Friends wanted the opportunity to explore issues face-to-face. The SIG’s will take place on the Saturday morning of Yearly Meeting.

Information about the Special Interest Groups will be provided here as soon as it is available.

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.

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

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.