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The Ireland Yearly Meeting is the umbrella body for the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland. It is one of many Yearly Meetings (YM's) of Friends around the world. A notable aspect of the Ireland YM is that it encompasses meetings with widely divergent Christian viewpoints from theologically conservative (evangelical) to theologically liberal.
The English-speaking minority mostly adhered to the Church of Ireland or to Presbyterianism, while the Irish-speaking majority remained faithful to the Latin liturgy of Roman Catholicism. From this period on, sectarian conflict became a recurrent theme in Irish history.
The English Reformation in the 1500s increased the antagonism between England and Ireland, as the Irish remained Catholic, which became a justification for the English to oppress the Irish. In Ireland, during the Tudor and Stuart eras , the English Crown initiated a large-scale colonization of Ireland with Protestant settlers from Britain ...
These meetings were intended for church members and missionaries and helped establish the permanence of the church in the area. [13] Missionaries also faced persecution in the form of mobs, stoning, smoking out of church meetings, and on one occasion, a foghorn, among other acts that often disturbed church gatherings. [17]
The history of Christianity in Cornwall is more obscure, but the native church seems to have been greatly strengthened by Welsh and Irish missionaries such as Saints Petroc, Piran, and Breaca. Extreme weather (as around 535 ) and the attendant famines and disease, particularly the arrival of the Plague of Justinian in Wales around 547 and ...
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The sermon was preached by Rev Mike O 'Sullivan. The service was attended by the Deputy Lord Mayor and the Ven. Adrian Wilkinson representing the Church of Ireland diocese of Cork and Ross. The church building was extensively fire damaged on 29 January 2024 [20] and since then meetings have been held online. Due to a lack of operational funds ...
MacCarthy, Robert Ancient and Modern: a short history of the Church of Ireland. Four Courts Press Ltd., 1995; McCormack, Christopher F. "The Irish Church Disestablishment Act (1869) and the general synod of the Church of Ireland (1871): the art and structure of educational reform." History of Education 47.3 (2018): 303–320. McDowell, Robert ...