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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 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 ...
In the Irish Parliament meanwhile a spirit of independence appeared. As the Parliament of the Pale it had been so often used for factious purposes that in 1496 Poynings' Law was passed, providing that henceforth no Irish Parliament could meet, and no law could be proposed, without the previous consent of both the Irish and English Privy ...
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]
Ian R. K. Paisley, The "Fifty-Nine" Revival: An Authentic History of the Great Ulster Awakening of 1859 (1958) Rev. John Weir, The Ulster Awakening: Its Origin, Progress, and Fruit. With Notes of a Tour of Personal Observation and Inquiry (1860) Rev. Wiliam Gibson, "The Year of Grace: A History of the Ulster Revival of 1859" (1860)
The Irish Council of Churches (ICC) (founded 1922, reorganised under its present name 1966) is an ecumenical Christian body. [1] It is a sister organisation of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland .
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Hiberno-English [a] or Irish English (IrE), [5] also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, [6] is the set of dialects of English native to the island of Ireland. [7] In both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, English is the dominant first language in everyday use and, alongside the Irish language, one of two official languages (with Ulster Scots, in Northern Ireland, being yet ...