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QVA – Quaker Voluntary Action

 QVA organises working retreats to provide practical opportunities to put faith into action and to develop new ways of volunteering that meet the challenges of our time.

The programme for 2010 includes a week in Moyallon, Co. Armagh
from July 17 – 24 (Saturday to Saturday). 
For details click here 

Darwin and the Divine

by
Christopher Moriarty

This article is based on a talk arranged by Monkstown Meeting in the Darwin bicentenary year.  It was first published in The Friendly Word January-February 2010.

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. (more…)

Ireland Yearly Meeting Epistle

Yearly Meeting was held in the Friends’ School, Lisburn, Co. Antrim from Thursday 8th to Sunday 11th April 2010. 

The Yearly Meeting Epistle is a traditional greeting, written in the course of each country’s Yearly Meeting and agreed to by all the participants.  The Epistle is sent to Yearly Meetings throughout the world.  Press here to read it

Youth co-ordinator

Quakers in Ireland are seeking a suitable candidate for a new position as Youth Co-ordinator.  Click here for details.

Why Violence ? Posters

The Alternative Turner Prize

Posters from schools country-wide in this competition will be on view in the Civic Office in Dublin during the week beginning Monday 22nd March. 

 Click here for details of this year’s competition and here for the background to the ‘Why violence ?’ campaign. 

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