Irish Quakers’ lives revealed - preview
A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Quakers, second edition, edited by Richard S. Harrison. Four Courts Press. ISBN 978‑1‑84682‑100‑4. £45
Thomas Abbott of Glanmire was a skinny dipper Odd for a Quaker? His neighbours thought so and were offended One, Mrs McCaul, told the servant to remove his clothes from the river bank But this backfired: being a Quaker, Thomas abandoned modesty and went, dripping, to Mrs McCaul’s front door and knocked loudly ‘Will thee tell Friend Elizabeth to send out my clothes?’ His naturism went unimpeded from then on
Charles Henry Bewley was a weird coot Raised a Quaker, he appears to have abandoned Friends because of their spiritual independence Bewley preferred authoritarian stances, particularly his own As an Irish diplomat, a strange career choice, he went to Germany in the thirties and struck up some dubious relationships with Nazis Just as well he’d left the Society
Judy Kirby
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