Philip de la Vache ""The Canterbury Tales"". However, the reference to Vache in Chaucer's poem may on good grounds also be a pun on his own name. The phrase Vache, leve! in the first line of the Envoy corresponds to medieval French Vache, reïs!, 'cow, leave!'. The French phase reïs, Vache!, (REISVACHE), when reversed, becomes CHAVSIER, the French form of the poet's name (this is a so-called palindrome). In the First Book of Kings in the Old Testament, the cows on their way to Beth Shemesh are likened to holy men, or monks on their way to the Heavenly Jerusalem. Chaucer may have regarded
Alliance for Animal Rights Union Stag Hunt in 2010, and supported the Irish Green Party during its terms as a coalition partner in government in Ireland (2007-2011). There has been controversy ever since the hunt ban, with animal advocacy groups claiming that the Ward Union are still hunting after the banning legislation. Alliance for Animal Rights The Alliance for Animal Rights (AFAR) is an Irish animal rights movement group based in Dublin which was founded in 1989. The group claims to be the first animal "rights," as opposed to animal welfare, organisation ever to form in Ireland. AFAR states that they stand for and