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
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