Friends in Ulster look forward to welcoming Friends from other parts of Ireland and abroad to Yearly Meeting which this year will be held at Friends’ School in Lisburn.

The sessions of the Yearly Meeting are open to all Members; others wishing to attend should obtain permission from the Clerk.

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. 

 Friends in Ulster look forward to welcoming Friends from other parts of Ireland and abroad to Yearly Meeting which this year will be held at Friends’ School in Lisburn.

The sessions of the Yearly Meeting are open to all Members; others wishing to attend should obtain permission from the Clerk.

Arthur’s latest book Quakers in Lisburn was launched on Saturday 7th November 2008.

This book records the contribution of Quakers, both as a meeting and as individuals, to the development of the Lisburn area in religious, educational, commercial and social life. Its publication coincides with the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Lisburn.

Paperback. 88 pages. Including many illustrations, photographs, black & white and colour.

Price £8.00 or €10, and is available from the Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum, Lisburn Friends Meeting or Friends Historical Library, Quaker House, Stocking Lane, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16.

Can also acquired by mail order, when postage and packaging will also be payable, from:-

John Scott, 22 Whitla Road, Lisburn, Co Antrim, BT28 3PP. Email scott22j@yahoo.co.uk. Phone 0044 28 92601864.

Please email or phone for costs of postage and packing.

If you haven’t been to JYM before, we’d love you to come along this year. JYM is a wonderfully welcoming event, and year after year people become the best of friends over just a few days. But if you’re at all nervous and would like to ask questions or just talk it through, please contact Carolan Goggin on irishjym@gmail.com.

If you have been to JYM…

http://www.qva.org.uk/Prog2010Insidev6.pdf

gives details of working retreats, including one at Moyallon in July.

The collection contains the minutes of Limerick men’s and women’s Meetings. The minutes record discussions on travel, marriage, removals and correspondence from Friends in Ireland and abroad. Also included is a Record of Suffering 1777-1857, which records goods seized from Friends in lieu of tithes to the Established Church.

Other records include account books, notices of removals, records of Friends removed from the Society for improper behaviour, notices of Friends transferring from and to other Meetings and records of Quaker births, deaths and marriages. The Relief Committee minutes books…

Four consecutive Wednesday evenings

From 30th Sept 2009

Quaker Quest Explores the Quaker way

It has actually happened!

We shared our individual and common insights through presentations, discussions, questions and an experience of Quaker worship.

Quaker Quest, an outreach programme tried and tested in the Britain Yearly Meeting ,took place in South Belfast Meeting this autumn.

Each evening the host or hostess introduces 3 speakers for the evening. Each speaker speaks on the chosen topic for up to 6 minutes and then the meeting breaks into small discussion groups. Following the discussion groups, each speaker gives another short talk on a more personal level on the same topic. There is an opportunity for questions and finally a Meeting for Worship lasting about 25minutes.

The topics covered were :

• Quakers and the Spiritual Path
• Quakers

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