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Annabella Hayes Day Event
7th February @ 7:45 pm – 8:45 pm
A celebration of Annabella Hayes Day will be held on Zoom from Wednesday 7th February with guest speaker Baroness Ritchie and featuring the All Ireland Mothers’ Union Chaplain, Archdeacon Stephen McBride, Rev Claire Thompson of All Saints’ Parish with music provided by the parish choir and organist. This is an opportunity for branches to meet and view it live via the Zoom link circulated by our Diocesan Secretary to all Branch Leaders, Secretaries and Treasurers.
If you require the Zoom link please speak to either your Branch Leaders/Secretaries/Treasurers or use the contact us section of our web page.
Mothers’ Union in Ireland was founded in Raheny, Dublin in 1887 by Mrs Annabella Hayes. Annabella was born in Dublin in 1847 and in 1866 she married the Reverend Francis Carlisle Hayes who was then curate in Sandford Parish Church, Dublin. In 1887 Annabella Hayes set up the first branch of the Mothers’ Union, inspired by what Mary Sumner had done in England eleven years before. Little did either of them know that in the twenty-first century world-wide membership of Mothers’ Union would have grown to over four million.
