Ireland Yearly Meeting will be held on 9 – 12 April 2026 at the Dominican Retreat Centre in Tallaght, Dublin. It is expected that registration will open in January 2026.

The theme for IYM 2026 is Deepening our Spirituality.

A summary of information about IYM 2026 can be downloaded here. Much of this information is also given under the relevant headings below.

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

Registering and Booking Meals

Information will be posted as soon as it is available!

Accommodation

The Dominican Retreat Centre has 29 single rooms available on site. The cost of accommodation is to be confirmed, however, it’s hoped to be similar to the price for IYM 2023 (which was €50/£45 for Bed and Breakfast). We will put out further information in January regarding costs and registration.

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.

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.

Transportation to IYM 2026

Information will be posted as soon as it is available!

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.

If you have a topic or theme that you want to explore, and have a clear plan of how this might be presented on the day, please email your proposal to Office@quakers.ie by Monday 2 February 2026 at the latest. The Programme Committee will then be able to decide which proposals can be developed further, so that we have as wide-ranging programme

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.

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.