The group that promoted the MacBride Principles was founded during a meeting of an organisation. That organization was founded in 1936.
 It was founded by Father Sean Gabriel Mc Manus on February 6, 1974, at a meeting of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. 
 Its largest membership is now in the United States, where it was founded in New York City in 1836. 
 They were promoted by Sen McManus and the Irish National Caucus, and by John Finucanne and the American Irish Political Education Committee (PEC), and were drafted by Nobel Laureate Sen MacBride (a founding member of Amnesty International), and were launched in November 1984. 
