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The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) was founded in 1969, in initial efforts to stop the commercial hunt for seal pups on the east coast of Canada. With offices in 15 countries, and projects in more than 40, [ 4 ] IFAW is one of the largest animal welfare organisations in the world.
The Dublin Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was established in 1840, [2] and is the oldest and largest animal welfare charity in Ireland. [3]Initially the organisation was known as the "Dublin Auxiliary of the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals", and it was founded the year the RSPCA received Royal Patronage. [4]
Housing associations based in the Republic of Ireland (4 P) Pages in category "Charities based in the Republic of Ireland" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
The Irish Blue Cross is an animal welfare charity formed in Ireland in 1945 by incorporating the welfare charity "Our Dumb Friends' League" into a new small animal and equine welfare organisation. The charity provides low-cost veterinary services to people on a low income in the greater Dublin area.
The owners of the furrier's shop J. M. Barnardo & Son in Dublin, Ireland, founded in 1812, already claimed the title of "oldest family of furriers in the world" in 1994. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Company history
The IHWT hosted Ireland's inaugural National Equine Welfare seminar in May 2011. [47] A charity gala production of the play War Horse took place at the Bord Gáis Theatre, in aid of the Irish Horse Welfare Trust, in April 2014. [48] The Irish Veterinary Nursing Association (IVNA) named the IHWT as its ‘Charity of the Year’ for 2014. [49] [50]
Following a meeting of businesspeople in 1817, and drawing on work in other European cities, the Institution was established in 1818 [2] as the Mendicity Association.Its aim was to provide food, clothing, education and lodging for the poor of Dublin, [3] and it was one of many that were established in Dublin to relieve the poverty that pervaded the city at that time.
The founders of the society were, as described in the History of Dublin (1815), "a few individuals in the middle ranks of life, inhabiting a part of the town where the population was poor and crowded, had daily opportunities of knowing that many poor creatures who were unable to dig and ashamed to beg, expired of want and were often found dead ...