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is in Temple Hill, Blackrock, County Dublin. In Belfast, there are three meeting houses: South Belfast, Frederick Street, and Hillsborough. A meeting house was re-established in Limerick in the mid-1990s, beside the Quaker cemetery in Southville Gardens, Ballinacurra. There were earlier houses in
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Creagh Lane, and Cecil Street. The Cork Meeting House is in Summerhill South, Cork, opened in 1939 (replacing the 1833 house on Grattan St., itself a replacement for a 1678 house). There is a Quaker service every Sunday at St Nicholas National School, Waterside, Galway.
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a preparatory school and grammar school. The Archives of the Religious Society of Friends are held in Quaker House, in Rathfarnham, and Meeting House, in Lisburn, County Antrim.
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Quakers' numbers declined due in some part due to individuals being "read out of meeting", where a member was disowned if they married a non-Quaker - this is no longer practised.
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In 1692, the Quakers opened a meeting house in Sycamore Alley, off Dame Street in Dublin. These premises expanded with the purchase of property backing onto
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In Dublin, there are four Quaker Meeting Houses, in Eustace Street, Churchtown, Monkstown, and Rathfarnham. The
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Quakers were known for entrepreneurship, setting up many businesses in Ireland, with many families such as the
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was formed in 1791. In 1988 they sold some of their property on Eustace Street, which became the
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Quakers claim to have circa 1,600 members on the island of Ireland. According to the Republic's
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in 1972 along with that of the other recognized denominations and the "special position" of the
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The Society was one of the six religious denominations recognized by article 44.1.3 of the
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The Quakers were known for setting up relief measures in their localities during the
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in Dublin, was also originally a Quaker hospital. There was a Quaker graveyard in
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to allow same-sex marriages in their Meetings for Worship.
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is a bimonthly magazine published by Quakers in Ireland.
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was founded by Quakers in the early 19th century. The
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