Profile of author Joan Johnson was born in Dublin and attended Wesley College. She qualified as a physiotherapist in 1964, and then worked in Waterford Regional Hospital and Waterford Maternity Hospital for over 30 years. Currently she is as a member of the South Eastern Health Board. Her interest in history began at school, encouraged by her teacher Billy Kirkpatrick, and extended to Irish Quaker history when she married into an Irish Quaker family. For over 35 years they have been regular visitors to Clifden, with their family of 5 children, enjoying holidays near to Letterfrack in the Johnson fami ly s holiday cottage at Errislannan.
Publisher hopes to publish a chapter from the book in the near future.
Friendsmanship Judy Wigham has submitted an article written by the late Maurice J. Wigham that takes a humorous look at Quaker business practice as viewed from the underside. Cheerful Saint Our Friend Joyce Neill of South Belfast Meeting has recently published her new biography of Denis Barritt. Publisher presents the second chapter of her book as a taster for Friends and others to sample. Details for ordering the book are given at the end of the excerpt contained in our Library Section. In May of 1990 Gordon Kelly, a Quaker and retired postal worker, felt guided to walk the distance between his own meeting, Frederick Street, and the meeting in the city's southern suburbs, South Belfast.