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For more information, contact Brian McClinton: 02892677264 07962122038

We seek to unite and enrich the island of Ireland through Humanism and Freethought. There are numerous issues, such as religious control of education, gender equality, LGBT rights, tourism and the environment on which Humanists throughout the island can work together. But, above all, we seek nothing less than the hegemony of the Humanist philosophy throughout this small island.

Irish Freethinkers and Humanists is an organisation that promotes freethought secular Humanism and represents the interests of those who adopt this enlightened philosophy. We promote freethought, tolerance, compromise and community in a society dominated for so long by sectarian religious and nationalist ideologies. We provide a forum for debate, discussion and education on the important issues of the day through activities such as our monthly meetings, our website, our Facebook page and our bi-monthly magazine Irish Freethinker and Humanist.

To find out more about Humanism, see The Humanist Handbook (left), which is a comprehensive history and analysis of Humanism, and read our Manifesto for the next decade below it.

News and Analysis

LATEST NEWS

EVEN THE TEACHING OF HISTORY IS SECTARIAN
Date Posted: 2020-07-17
A new study reveals that the choice of local study in GCSE history is made largely on tribal lines

THE THREE CONMEN OF CORONA
Date Posted: 2020-07-06
The crisis has exposed the unfitness to govern of Trump, Bolsonaro and Johnson

DEFAMATION IN NORTHERN IRELAND
Date Posted: 2020-07-05
A new defamation law came into force on the 1st January 2014 in England, but similar changes have not been made in Northern Ireland.

IRELAND AND SLAVERY
Date Posted: 2020-07-01
Ireland has a mixed record, with both supporters and opponents prominent in modern history

THE WRATH OF GOD
Date Posted: 2020-05-03
FUNDAMENTALIST religious believers love to blame natural disasters on God.

2020s CHALLENGES FOR HUMANISM
Date Posted: 2020-05-02
The Humanist Challenge to Current Inhumane Ideas

BASIC INCOME: AN OLD IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME
Date Posted: 2020-05-01
Eamon Murphy argues that a universal basic income (UBI) has many advantages in the modern age. The idea is gaining momentum, with pilot projects in Finland and in the Netherlands currently in progress.

A NEW IRELAND
Date Posted: 2019-11-21
Nationalists and Republicans have a responsibility in framing the discourse and debate of the benefits of a New Ireland which will be inclusive to all.