Those of us who pursue an interest in Irish Methodist genealogy look to John Wesley as having been the instigator of the eighteenth century religious revival in Ireland.

He arrived for the first time at St. George’s Quay in Dublin on Sunday, 9th August 1747 and bade farewell in the same city on Sunday, 12th July 1789. In the intervening forty-two  years, about five and a half were spent in Ireland, during the course of twenty-one visits. The County of Kerry appears to have been the only one he failed to reach as he travelled through the length and breadth of the land.  When English Methodists questioned his allocation of so much time he responded, “Have patience, and Ireland will repay you”. 

History has proved his words to have been prophetic and Irish Methodists have carried their faith with them as they have become widely dispersed throughout the world.