DLR Roger Casement Summer School

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📍 Best Practice Visits

With three Best Practice Visits over the next 2 weeks, why join us? Well no better way than to hear from some of our participants who joined us on our recent Best Practice Visits -

“I really enjoyed it because such kind of visits are valuable”

“Visits like these are very important to break barriers and misconceptions.”

Discover how local faith and belief groups support their communities - real examples, real insight, real impact. Join us at one or both of our upcoming Best Practice Visits which focus on unity, peace and welcoming.

Friday 4th September | 10.30am – 12.30pm | St Vincent de Paul – a Christian, member led organisation providing practical support to families and individuals across Belfast.

Tuesday 8th September | 11am – 12.30pm | All Nations Ministries – a Christian charity serving migrants, refugees, and the wider community through Christ-centred outreach, practical support, and empowerment.

Friday 11th September | 11am – 12.30pm | Quaker Service - a charity supporting communities guided by the Quaker testimonies to peace, equality, truth, and simplicity. Quaker Service provides support to people whilst both honouring their heritage and meeting the needs of those most in need.

Book your FREE place HERE: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/tNyGR2g5Q4

The Belfast Local Community Action Plan is supported by PEACEPLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB).

Belfast City Council
The Corrymeela Community

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From the latest September/October 2026 issue.

How well known are Roger Casement and his humanitarian work in today’s Democratic Republic of the Congo?

In February 2026, Dave Alvey, chair of the Roger Casement Summer School, travelled to Kinshasa to deliver lectures on Casement’s investigation of King Leopold II’s brutal rubber regime.

His audiences at three educational institutions were introduced not only to Casement’s landmark 1904 report, but also to his later involvement in Irish nationalism and the events that led to his ex*****on in 1916.

The visit prompted lively discussion about colonial history, the continuing Belgian influence on education in the DRC, and Casement’s relevance today.

Read ‘Roger Casement and the Congo today’ by Dave Alvey in the September/October 2026 issue of History Ireland.

🔗 [https://historyireland.com/roger-casement-and-the-congo-today/]

📷 Roger Casement—well known in Ireland, but how well known is he and his humanitarian work in today’s Democratic Republic of the Congo? (UCD Archives)

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Book your place by emailing [email protected]

7.00pm on Friday 4 September, 2026, at Union Theological College

The exhibition on ‘Irish Presbyterianism in the 1920s’ may be viewed before the lecture. The Gamble Library will be open from 6.30pm until 7.00pm to give time for this.

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Corrymeela is looking to recruit a fourth member of the Senior Management Team, Head of Engagement and Participation to support the Community during an interim phase while they plan for the future phase during 2027. This is an exciting time in Corrymeela as they have just celebrated 60 years and are now taking time to strategically plan for the future whilst continuing the ground breaking work of supporting peace and reconciliation, addressing division in Northern Ireland and beyond.

Please follow link for further information: https://www.nijobfinder.co.uk/job/2051977/head-of-engagement-and-participation/

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