CommuNIqué - Newsletter of the Bahá'í Community in Northern Ireland
Issue 131 - 5 Mashiyyat 164 BE - 1 October 2007 CE

NEW BOOK LOOKS AT IRISH BAHÁ’Í “CONNECTIONS”

“Connections: Essays and Notes on Early Links Between the Baha'i Faith & Ireland”

Edited by Brendan McNamara

“Connections” tells the stories of some marvellous and interesting people who found themselves at the centre of great happenings associated with the birth of the Faith of the Báb.

• Dr. William Cormick, who attended the Báb in Tabriz on a number of occasions and whose father hailed from Co. Kilkenny.
• Lady Mary Sheil from Co. Clare, wife of the British Minister to the court of the Shah, whose published diary (Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia, published in 1856) contains an important early account of the Martyrdom of the Báb.

The collection of essays also catalogues the lives of the first Irish Bahá’ís and the first Bahá’ís to live in Ireland.

• Henry and Mary Culver. Henry was the U.S. Consul in Cobh, Co. Cork from 1906 to 1910.
• Dr. Frederick D’Evelyn from Belfast, who served the Faith with distinction in the bay area of San Francisco at the turn of the twentieth century.
• The Ffordes of Donegal, an intriguing couple with an even more intriguing story

The volume, complete with photographs (including a rare photograph of Dr. William Cormick), also tells the story of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and Cobh in the south of Ireland and the Master’s historic trip aboard the S.S. Celtic in 1912.

With a Foreword by Professor Seosamh Watson.

Available from Bahá'í Books UK, £8.50.

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