Welcome to the Irish Freethinkers and Humanists, the only all Ireland Humanist groupThe Irish Freethinkers and Humanists has members throughout the island of Ireland. It holds regular meetings, runs a summer conference jointly with the HAI, and produces the Irish Freethinker and Humanist magazine
Thurs:10th Oct: Wave and the Legacy:
Alan McBride, speaker, centre, and some of the audience at the above meeting
The 2019 Summer Conference, organised by the Irish Freethinkers and Humanists and the Humanist Association of Ireland, was held on 7th and 8th September in the Bridge House Hotel, Tullamore, Co. Offaly.
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Thursday 14th February
IFH DECEMBER MEETING: TROUBLE SONGS Speaker Stuart Bailie gave a fascinating talk on 13th December about his new book ‘Trouble Songs: Music and Conflict in Northern Ireland’. Trouble Songs involves over 60 interviews and conversations with the likes of Bono, Christy Moore, the Undertones, Stiff Little Fingers, Orbital, Kevin Rowland, Terri Hooley, the Rubberbandits, Dolores O’Riordan and the Miami Showband survivors. It’s an account of how music has been a persuader, agitator and peacemaker.
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News and Analysis LATEST NEWS![]() Date Posted: 2021-02-20 For a country as intertwined with organised religion as Ireland has been for centuries, it would be misguided to let the Church off the hook ![]() Date Posted: 2021-01-16 The political philosophy of Jesus is a profoundly reactionary message which fails to provide any practical scheme for the good of society. ![]() Date Posted: 2020-12-28 Is it wise to name a hurling club after an INLA hunger striker? ![]() Date Posted: 2020-12-17 If you are born a Protestant in Northern Ireland the chances are that you will grow up in the midst of a col- lection of ideas and values that, to put it mildly, lie on the right-wing of the political spectrum. ![]() Date Posted: 2020-05-02 The Humanist Challenge to Current Inhumane Ideas ![]() 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. ![]() Date Posted: 2017-06-20 A SIGNIFICANT political phenomenon today is the resurgence of autocracy. The defeat of fascism in 1945 ended a period of dictatorship in parts of western Europe, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 weakened a longer period of the same in the East. There was talk of the end of history as liberal, co-operative, peaceful, secular democracy appeared to be the model for countries everywhere. Alas, reports of the death of dictatorship have been greatly exaggerated. |