Abbreviations

AFSC

American Friends Service Committee

AICF

Action International Contre la Faim

AMR

American Mennonite Relief

ARA

American Relief Administration/ARA Archives

ARC

American Red Cross

BBC

British Broadcasting Corporation

BRA

British Association for the Relief of Extreme Distress in the Remote Parishes of Ireland and Scotland

CA

Christian Aid/CA Archives

Can

Canadian

CARE

Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere

CDAA

Churches Drought Action for Africa/Ethiopia

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency

CIDA

Canadian International Development Agency

CRC

Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends (Ireland)

CRDA

Christian Relief and Development Association

CRS

Catholic Relief Services

DAC

Diocesan Archives, Cashel

DAD

Diocesean Archives, Dublin

DEC

Disasters Emergency Committee (UK)

DM

German marks (currency)

ECA

Economic Commission on Africa (UN)

EEC

European Economic Community

EPLF

Eritrean People’s Liberation Front

ERA

Eritrean Relief Association

ERC/Eurelcon

European Relief Council

ERD

Emergency Relief Desk

FAI

Fondo Aiuti Italani

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organisation

FCO

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

FEWVRC

Friends’ Emergency and War Victims Relief Committee

FSR

Friends of Soviet Russia

FUJ

Federation of Ukrainian Jews

FY

fiscal year

GCRC

General Central Relief Committee for all Ireland

GNP

gross national product

GPU

State Political Directorate (Russia/Soviet Union)

HAC

Historical Archives of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples

HO

Home Office

IAH

Internationale Arbeiterhilfe

ICRC

International Committee of the Red Cross

ICRR

International Committee for Russian Relief

IIED

International Institute for Environment and Development

IRA

Irish Relief Association for the Destitute Peasantry

ISCU

International Save the Children Union

IWRF

Imperial War Relief Fund

JDC

Joint Distribution Committee

JRO

Joint Relief Operation (Ethiopian Red Cross)

MAD

multiple accountabilities disorder

MP

Member of Parliament (general)

Monteagle Papers (NLI)

Murray Papers (DAD)

NCWC

National Catholic Welfare Council

NEP

New Economic Policy

NER

Near East Relief

NGO

non-governmental organisation

NLI

National Library of Ireland

OD

overseas development

ODI

Overseas Development Institute

OEOE

Office for Emergency Operations in Ethiopia (UN)

PIC

Pontifical Irish College

PR

public relations

PRONI

Public Records Office of Northern Ireland

R2P

responsibility to protect

REST

Relief Society of Tigray

RFRF

Russian Famine Relief Fund (UK)

RLN

The Robinson Library, Newcastle University

RRC

Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (Ethiopia)

SC

documents referred to in the weekly meetings

SCF

Save the Children Fund/SCF Archives

SEK

Swedish kronor (currency)

SF

Swiss francs (currency)

SOAS

School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

SoF

Society of Friends

SoS

Secretary of State (Vatican)

SP

Slattery Papers

SRC

Swedish Red Cross

SVP

Society St Vincent de Paul

t

(metric) tonnes

T

Treasury

TNA(IRL)

The National Archives of Ireland

TNA(UK)

The National Archives (UK)

TP

Trevelyan Papers

TPLF

Tigray People’s Liberation Front

UK

United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Ireland)

UN

United Nations

UNICEF

United Nations Children’s Fund

URA

United Relief Association

US

adjective form of USA

USA

United States of America

USAID

United States Agency for International Development

UshCL

Ushaw College Library

VSA

Vatican Secret Archives

VRS

Volga Relief Society

WFP

World Food Programme

WIR

Workers’ International Relief

WOW

War on Want/WOW Archives

YMCA

Young Men’s Christian Association

YWCA

Young Women’s Christian Association