Ireland YM public lecture
Ian Kirk-Smith delivers the public lecture at Ireland Yearly Meeting
The idea of acting on principle rather than consequence was explored by Ian Kirk-Smith in this year’s public lecture at Ireland Yearly Meeting held at The King’s Hospital School in Dublin from 24 to 27 April. Ian, who is editor of the Friend, talked about his life as a radio producer and film-maker, over a period of twenty-seven years, with the BBC.
The title of the public lecture, ‘On principle, not consequence’, was taken from the work of the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson, who wrote a history of the Religious Society of Friends in the early nineteenth century, as well as a biography of William Penn.
In the lecture Ian talked about radio and film series that he had produced and directed, the values that had informed his work and the strong influence of his Quaker faith in his creative life as a film-maker.
He also discussed some individual documentary films on subjects such as poverty and deprivation in a working class Loyalist community, and a series on cultural traditions and identity in Northern Ireland.
(See an excerpt from the talk in ‘Thought for the Week: That of God’)
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