The Irish Refugee Council [IRC] works with and for refugees in Ireland. The IRC believes, in accordance with the 1951 Convention relating to the status of refugees, that every person has the right to claim asylum and to have their application considered in a fair and transparent manner. IRC works with other organisations, activists and individuals to create a just, fair and inclusive society for people seeking asylum. The IRC has its origins in a conference which took place in Dublin in 1988 entitled Refugees in Crisis. In 1992 the IRC was formally registered as a limited company and subsequently obtained charitable status.
This collection features the documentation of three of the ten grants given by The Atlantic Philanthropies to the IRC between the years 1998 and 2014 totalling €5,423,974. The grants amounting €3,267,000 to were given to assist the Irish Refugee Council [IRC] re-organise itself and sustaining critical skills, expertise and capacity during the vital initial years of the implementation of comprehensive immigration reform as well as to implement its three year strategic plan by contributing to the core operational costs of the organisation.
The records presented in this collection typify as business records, reports, grant proposals and printed ephemera. This collection is related to oral history interviews given by Peter O’Mahony, IRC chief executive from 1999-2015 and Nick Henderson IRC chief executive from 2016 and Nadette Foley was the director of IRC from 1992 until 1998.
