Oral history interview of Nadette Foley

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Context

Nadette Foley was the director of the Irish Refugee Council from 1992 until 1998 and has worked with organisations such as the Multi-Cultural Resource Centre in Northern Ireland and Refugee Integration and Cultural Diversity Programme at Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation.

Description:

This seventy-one-minute long oral history interview was conducted by the Digital Repository of Ireland as part of The Atlantic Philanthropies archive project (2017-2020) titled Amplifying change: A history of the Atlantic Philanthropies on the island of Ireland in 2019., Nadette Foley talks about her stay in Pakistan, where she worked with refugees from Afghanistan before working with the Irish Refugee Council. Nadette also talks about her leading role in advocacy on the Irish Refugee Act in 1996 and her work with The Atlantic Philanthropies funded Refugee Information Service., and This recording contains the personal views of the participants, they do not reflect the views of the DRI.

Type:

audio and oral histories (literary works)

Creator:

Digital Repository of Ireland, 2015 -

Subject:

Curated collection--Oral histories, Curated collection--Human rights, Curated collection--Migrants, Curated collection--Nadette Foley, Atlantic Philanthropies (Organization), Irish Refugee Council, Grant 11830, Grant 07883, Grant 24255, Non-governmental organizations, and Migrants--Ireland

Grant:

Grant 11830, Grant 07883, and Grant 24255

Grantee:

Irish Refugee Council

Year of Grant:

1999, 2003, and 2014

Location of Grantee:

Dublin

Rights:

Copyright is with DRI and Nadette Foley. Please see license for reuse.

Attribution:

Digital Repository of Ireland and The Atlantic Philanthropies

Doi:

https://doi.org/10.7486/DRI.qb9913346