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Tag "Ireland"

tag name: Ireland type: Geographic locations
web link: Ireland
variations: Republic of Ireland
references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland
related tags: - Europe; Northern Ireland, UK
referring tags: British Isles; Dublin, Ireland; Northern Ireland, UK; Waterford, Ireland

"Ireland" appears in:

1.   from the main catalog (12 results; less)

  1. Edwin Graham. Equality and Baha'i Principles in Northern Ireland (2001). A paper in two parts: (1) the development of equality legislation in Northern Ireland, and (2) the Bahá’í Teachings in relation to equality and the extent to which Northern Irish legislation applies or does not apply them.
  2. Eamonn Moane. Ireland's Multi-Ethnic Immigration Challenge: An Irish Bahá'í View (2002). After centuries of population loss, Ireland’s economic success in the 1990s led to a surge of immigration, but its reaction to a multi-ethnic influx has been disappointing. It needs Bahá'í approaches like consultation, tolerance, fairness, and morality.
  3. Adib Taherzadeh. Irish Bahá'í Summer School (1999). A wide-ranging talk on the administrative order, anecdotes about George Townshend, and time spent in Ireland.
  4. Todd Lawson. Joycean Modernism in a Nineteenth-Century Qur'an Commentary?: A Comparison of The Báb's Qayyūm Al-Asmā' with Joyce's Ulysses (2015). Comparison of the formal structure of the two works and themes such as time; oppositions and their resolution; relation between form and content; prominence of epiphany; manifestation, advent and apocalypse; and the theme of heroism, reading and identity.
  5. Olive McKinley. Life of Hugh McKinley, Knight of Bahá'u'lláh (2004). History of Hugh McKinley, correspondent of Shoghi Effendi, and his father, David McKinley — lives of interest not only to Bahá'ís but to the Irish in general.
  6. George Townshend. Mission of Bahá'u'lláh, The: And Other Literary Pieces (1952). Poems, meditations, and essays, including "Nabíl’s history of the Báb," "Abdu’l-Bahá: A study of a Christlike character," "Queen Marie of Rumania and the Bahá’í Faith," "The wellspring of happiness," and "The genius of Ireland."
  7. Robert Weinberg. O. Z. Whitehead (1911-1998): Actor and writer (1998). Oothout Zabriskie 'Zebby' Whitehead (1911–1998) was an American stage and film character actor who later became a Bahá'í pioneer in the Republic of Ireland, and authored three books of Bahá'í biographies.
  8. George Townshend. Old Churches and the New World-Faith, The (1949). Pamphlet publication of Townshend's letter of renunciation of the Anglican Church and proclamation of Bahá'u'lláh.
  9. Brian Corvin. Personal Consideration of the Four Year Plan and its Legacy from an Irish Bahá'í Perspective, A (2001). A frank and detailed assessment and retrospective of the response to the Four Year Plan (1996-2000) in the Republic of Ireland. Though highly personal and at times polemical, the author offers the paper as a socio-historical analysis with suggestions.
  10. Lawrence D. Staudt. Philosophical Basis for the Centre for Renewable Energy at Dundalk Institute of Technology, A (2003). Nature of the physical world, the principle of sustainability, the present energy situation, options for Ireland, a vision for the use of renewable energy in Ireland, and the role of the Centre for Renewable Energy at Dundalk Institute of Tech (CREDIT).
  11. Keith Munro. Through the Eyes of Margaret Cousins: Irish and Indian Suffragette (2018). Biography of the co-founder of the Irish Women's Franchise League, a theosophist, who met both Martha Root and Shoghi Effendi.
  12. Betsy Omidvaran. Visits of the Hands of the Cause of God to Ireland (2003). An overview of all known visits by the Hands, the highest-ranking officers of the Bahá’í Faith, to Ireland. Review of the many historical sources about this largely-uninvestigated topic. Includes timeline of the visits between 1952 and 1986.

2.   from the Chronology (19 results; less)

  1. 1876-06-14 — Birth of George Townshend, Hand of the Cause of God, in Dublin.
  2. 1920-00-00 — George Townshend became a Bahá'í, and sent a letter of acceptance of the Faith to `Abdu'l-Bahá. [GT49]
  3. 1930-00-00 — The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of England changed its name to become the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the British Isles. [Bahaipedia United Kingdom; BCBI423]
  4. 1940-06-30 — George Townshend preached a sermon in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, proclaiming the Bahá'í Faith to the congregation. [GT171]
  5. 1944-05-00 —
      The British at their national convention, decided to ask the Guardian for their own Six Year Plan. [UDXVI]
    • He responded immediately by setting them the task of forming 19 assemblies spread over England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Eire. [UD173]
    • Shoghi Effendi described this as 'their first collective enterprise'. [UDXVI, 173–4]
    • See also BBRSM158, 185.
  6. 1947-06-20 — George Townshend sent a letter of resignation from the Church of Ireland to the Bishop of Killaloe, naming 30 September for the effective date. [GT195]
  7. 1947-09-30 —
      George Townshend, at the age of 71 years, resigned his position with the Church of Ireland. [GT195]
    • He was the first ordained priest of a Christian Protestant church to renounce his Orders and to become a fully accredited member of the Bahá'í community. [GT183]
    • For the story of his resignation and transition to a lay life see GT199–200, 202.
  8. 1948-04-21 — The first local spiritual assembly in Ireland was established in Dublin.
  9. 1949-00-00 — The pamphlet written by by George Townshend to all Christians under the title The Old Churches and the New World Faith was sent out to 10,000 "responsible people" in the British Isles on the occasion of his resignation from the church. [UD470]
  10. 1951-04-21 —
      The Bahá'ís of the British Isles launched a Two Year Plan (1951-1953). [Ruhi 8.2 p46]

      Some goals were:
        - To strengthen the nineteen Spiritual Assemblies already established in the British Isles
        - To form nuclei in three dependencies of the British Crown in East or West Africa
        - To translate, publish and disseminate Bahá'í literature in three additional African languages

    • Note that the British community was concentrating on homefront goals and playing a leading role in the African Campaign coordinated with five other National Spiritual Assemblies. [The Spiritual Conquest of the Planet (Supplement) p2]
  11. 1957-03-25 —
  12. 1968-06-21 — The first summer school to be held in Ireland bagin.
  13. 1972-04-21 —
      The National Spiritual Assembly of the Republic of Ireland was formed with its seat in Dublin. [BW15:283]
    • For picture see BW15:153.
    • The National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles was renamed the National Spiritual Assembly of the United Kingdom. [BW15:290]
  14. 1982-06-25 —
      A Bahá'í International Conference to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the passing of the Greatest Holy Leaf was held in Dublin, Ireland, attended by some 1,900 Bahá'ís from 60 countries. [BW18:100; VV61]
    • For the message of the Universal House of Justice see BW18:156–7.
    • For a pictorial report see BW18:138–40.
  15. 1983-00-00 —
      The Association for Bahá'í Studies, English-Speaking Europe, was established in the Republic of Ireland.
    • Responsibility for the Association was transferred to the United Kingdom in 1989.
  16. 1998-07-29 —
      The passing of actor and writer O. Z. Whitehead at the age of 87 in Dublin. (b. in New York City on 18 March 1911).
    • His most acclaimed performance and best remembered role remained that of Al in John Ford's classic 1940 film version of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
    • After the World Congress in 1963 he pioneered to the Irish Republic where, among other services to the Faith, he served on the National Spiritual Assembly.
    • He published three volumes of pen portraits, Some Early Bahá'ís of the West (1976), Some Bahá'ís to Remember (1983), and Portraits of Some Bahá'í Women (1996).
    • He is remembered as a champion of the Arts. [Bahá'í Studies Review Vol8, 1998]
    • See Robert Weinberg's O. Z. Whitehead (1911-1998):Actor and writer that was published in Bahá'í Studies Review No 8 in 1998.
  17. 2003-03-09 — The passing of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Una Dean, née Townshend, in Edmonton, Canada. Una lived a full life of Bahá'í service. In 1946 she was the first Bahá'í in Dublin and was later a member of the first spiritual assembly. She also helped to form the first spiritual assembly in Liverpool. In October 1953 she was the first Bahá'i in Malta, a goal of the Ten Year Crusade. In 1954 she returned to Ireland to tend to her ailing father and to assist him in writing Christ and Bahá'u'lláh. After his passing in 1957 she moved to America, met and married her husband, Dick Dean, and moved to Edmonton where she served on the Local Assembly until 1987. [BW02-03p269]
  18. 2010-04-30 — The visit of the President of the Republic of Ireland, Mary McAleese, to the World Centre. [BWNS774]
  19. 2023-08-22 — The launch of the Townshend Taherzadeh Library and Archives established in honour of George Townshend (1876-1957), the founding figure of the Irish Bahá'í Community, and Adib Taherzadeh (1921-2000), a father figure during its formative years. the library's primary founding objectives are to promote, preserve and provide accessibility to the rich history and development of the Bahá'í Faith in the island of Ireland and throughout the world, and to become a centre of learning and research for future generations.

    Website.

3.   from the Chronology of Canada (1 result)

  1. 2003-03-03 —
      The passing of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Una Dean, née Townshend, in Edmonton, Canada. Una lived a full life of Bahá'í service. In 1946 she was the first Bahá'í in Dublin and was later a member of the first spiritual assembly. She also helped to form the first spiritual assembly in Liverpool. In October 1953 she was the first Bahá'i in Malta, a goal of the Ten Year Crusade. In 1954 she returned to Ireland to tend to her ailing father and to assist him in writing Christ and Bahá'u'lláh. After his passing in 1957 she moved to America, met and married her husband, Dick Dean, and moved to Edmonton where she served on the Local Assembly until 1987. [BW02-03p269; Find a grave]
    • See Bahá'í Chronicles.
 
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