MEETINGS AND EVENTS

HUMANIST MEETINGS IN IRELAND

Humanist Association of Northern Ireland

Second Thursday of the month (except July and August)

Malone Lodge Hotel, Eglantine Ave, Belfast, 8pm

Contact Brian 02892677264

2012-13 Programme

Date

Event

Details

31-2 Sept

Summer School in Carlingford: Humanism and the Arts

Jointly hosted by HUMANI and Humanist Assoc of Ireland: Speakers, Roy Brown,Anthony Kennedy,Prof David McConnell, Pat Winslow, Deborah Logan, Aideen McDonald.

13 Sept

Origins of the Giant’s Causeway

David McConaghie from Caleb Foundation (Cancelled - replaced with Terry Moseley on ET)

11 Oct What is Freedom? a discussion on global development and inequality
 

Renee Prendergast QUB School of Economics

8 Nov

UK Armed Forces Humanist Assoc

David Brittan

13 Dec

Charity Quiz

Brian McClinton

10 Jan

Animal Rights

 Dr Sarah Millsopp (Pet Behaviourist)  

"Non-human animals; why do they deserve our concern?"

8 Feb

Darwin Day Dinner

Professor Peter Bowler "Unimagining Darwin"

14 Feb

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Higgs Boson - and a lot that you didn't.

What's in a name? - The God Particle for Atheists.
 

Terry Moseley

14 Mar

Peak Oil and Climate Change - a low energy future (to 'nearly' coincide with Climate Week)

Dr John Barry QUB

 

11 Apr

Human Trafficking

Joanne Harris - Soroptimists International GB&I

 

9 May

Poverty among ethnic minorities in NI 

 Dr. Ruth McAreavey QUB

13 June

Debate on Gay Marriage (see below)

(also Humani AGM)

David Smyth (Evangelical Alliance), Richard Craig (Humani)

 

THURSDAY 13th June MEETING

DEBATE: "This House would support Gay Marriage"

Proposer: Richard Craig (Humani).

Opposer: David Smyth (Public Policy Officer, Evangelical Alliance)

Malone Lodge Hotel: 8pm

Humanist Association of Ireland

First Sunday of the month

Buswell's Hotel, Molesworth Street, Dublin, 4 pm

Contact Ann 018413116

North Coast Humanists

Second Tuesday of the month

Lodge Hotel, Coleraine, 6 30 pm

Contact Jennifer 02870354287

Cork Humanists

Quay Co-op Meeting Room, Cork

Check at http://corkhumanists.com

Mid-West Humanists (Limerick, Clare, Tipperary) 

Once a month

Absolute Hotel, Sir Harrys Mall, Limerick, 8 pm

Email: info@midwesthumanists.com

Humanists West (Galway)

Last Sunday of the month

 Galway Tennis Club, Threadneedle Rd., Salthill, Galway, 12 noon 

Contact Garry O'Lochlainn 0872222726   

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Some Recent Speakers (rest mouse on picture for caption)

 

Some other recent Meetings and Events

 Iain Deboys, left, Brian McClinton and William Burns, with Dr Sarah Willsopp, January 2013 speaker

 Iain Deboys, Shelley Leggett, Simon-Boris Essig, Renee Prendergast (October 2012 speaker), and Kevin Kerr

 
Thurs 13th September 2012: Is there Life out there? 
 
 
Terry Moseley(below) tried to answer the question
 
 
 

Thursday 12th January

John Gray, centre, with Kevin Kerr and Pauline Mahood after his talk on 12th January on

The History and Influence of the Linen Hall Library

Noel Scott, Lynda Foy and Ken Murray, who laid a wreath on behalf of Humanists in Northern Ireland and the UK Armed Forces Humanist Association at the Cenotaph, Belfast, 13th November 2011

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Thursday 10th November

Rev David Armstrong,

Formerly minister of Limavady First Presbyterian Church

Against Fundamentalism

Rev David Armstrong, who was hounded out of Limavady in 1985 after years of a living hell for himself and his family, spoke at the Humani meeting on 10th November. He is pictured above at the meeting with Noel Scott, left, and Brian McClinton, right, directors of Humani. 

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 Iain Deboys, left, and Brice Dickson, speaker on Humanism and the Law,

8th September 2011

 

Sampling the literature at the Carlingford Summer School, 2011

David McConnell, Peter Simons, Roy Brown: panellists, 4th Sept 2011

Annie Marie Waters, Richard Norman, Ben Siegle: panellists, 4th Sept 2011

19th June Picnic in the Park: HAI and HUMANI members at Omra Park, Omeath

 9th June: Dawn Purvis, with Iain Deboys (left) and Kevin Kerr (right)

12th May: Iain Deboys with Peter Cullen of the Zeitgeist Movement

 April Meeting: Iain Deboys, Sidney Ewing, Myrtle Ewing and Eamon Phoenix

 April Meeting: a section of the audience at Dr Phoenix's talk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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