The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Ireland
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They have also conceived and planned a Residential Conference Centre for Irish Friends, with accommodation for about 60, in the Meeting House grounds at Moyallon, near Portadown, Co. Armagh. This will be available to groups from all sectors of the community as well as Quakers, and building is expected to be finished early in 2006.
In Dublin, the Bloomfield Hospital has moved to new premises, and is now called the Bloomfield Care Centre. Bloomfield Hospital was originally opened by Friends in 1812 to provide loving care for patients suffering from mental illness. At that time treatment often consisted of punishment and physical restraint, sometimes even with chains. Nowadays the Bloomfield Care Centre provides care for the active elderly, the elderly who require some nursing care, and those who need full nursing care.
Bloomfield Care Centre - 180 years of caring.
Because the old buildings were no longer suitable, the Bloomfield Care Centre moved in January 2005 to its spacious new site at Stocking Lane, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16; phone 4950211.
At the same time the Central Offices and Historical Library of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Ireland have moved to newly built premises adjacent to Bloomfield Care Centre, and the address is now Quaker House, Stocking Lane, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16.
Quaker House, Stocking Lane, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16. See also an alternative view.
The Quaker Tapestry consists of 77 panels of crewel embroidery that illustrate the spiritual insights that have motivated Friends from 1652 to the present day. It is on display in the Friends Meeting House in Kendal, Cumbria. Irish Friends created two panels – "The Great Hunger" about Quaker relief work in Ireland in 1845-48, and "Service is love in action" about reconciliation work by Friends in Northern Ireland since 1969. All the panels were exhibited in Ireland in 1992.
Elsewhere, Irish Friends have an input to the Quaker Council for European Affairs based in Brussels. This operates as a recognised Non Governmental Organisation, regularly bringing Friends views and recommendations to the notice of (and lobbying) appropriate persons and bodies at the headquarters of the EU.
Na Cairde agus an Gaeilge
Tá Gaeilge líofa ag dream beag i gCumann na gCarad agus iad ag méadú le tamall anuas. Thug Liam Glynn, scoláire súntasach agus Cara, óráid adhlachta as Gaeilge ag sochraid Bulmer Hobson i 1969. Ba Náisiúnaí é Bulmer Hobson. Cé gur rugadh mar Chara é, d'éirigh sé as nuair a ghlach sé páirt le Bráithreachas Phoblacht na hÉireann (IRB), mar gur chreid sé sa lámh láidir chun saoirse na hÉireann a bhaint amach.NB The words 'Friend' and 'Quaker' are interchangeable.