TheIrish White Cross was established on 1 February 1921 as a mechanism for distributing funds raised by theAmerican Committee for Relief in Ireland.[1] It was managed by theQuaker businessman, and laterIrish Free State senator,James G. Douglas. The White Cross continued to operate until theIrish Civil War and its books were officially closed in 1928. From 1922 its activities were essentially wound down and remaining funds divested to subsidiary organisations. The longest running of these aid committees was the Children's Relief Association which distributed aid to child victims of this troubled period, north and south of the border, until 1947.[2]
