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In 1921 Ireland was partitioned into the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland, by the Government of Ireland Act (1920), and a separate organisation for the Free State was created from the whole, the Irish Free State Girl Guides. Ireland became a separate member of the WAGGGS in 1932. In 1938 the name of the organisation was changed to the ...
The Council of Irish Guiding Associations (Irish: Comhairle Bantreoraithe na hÉireann) is the national Guiding federation of the Republic of Ireland. Guiding in Ireland started in 1911, and Ireland became a member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) in 1932. The council serves 13,837 Guides (as of 2008). [1]
It has members in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Catholic Guides of Ireland began in 1928 and thus in 2003 celebrated 75 years of Guiding in Ireland. Together with the Irish Girl Guides it forms the Council of Irish Guiding Associations. In total three Guide associations operate on the island of Ireland.
the Council of Irish Guiding Associations, member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, a federation consisting of: the Catholic Guides of Ireland, an all island association; the Irish Girl Guides only serving the Republic of Ireland; Girlguiding Ulster, a branch of Girlguiding UK operates only in Northern Ireland
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts recognizes at most one Guiding organization per country. Some countries have several organizations combined as a federation, with different component groups divided on the basis of religions (France, Denmark), ethnic identification (Israel) or language (Belgium).
Henderson has been involved with Guiding since childhood, as a Guide and a Ranger. As an adult, she has held numerous positions at both national and international levels. Between 1975 and 1989, she served the Irish Girl Guides as National Trainer, Chairman of the National Training Committee, Member of the National Executive Committee and International Commissioner.
Sheena E. Conn is a former Northern Irish unionist politician. Background ... Conn was also prominent in the Girl Guides leadership, [1] ... Member for Londonderry
Stopford joined the Guiding movement as a Lone Guide in Branch A aged 15 in Ireland. [7] She started her own Company, 1st Gorey, at the age of 21. [8]In the 1930s she was a member of the executive branch of Buckinghamshire Girl Guides where she and her mother both held a "high rank". [9]