Christopher Fettes

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Christopher Fettes (born in 1937 in England) is an Irish teacher, Green politician and activist.

He studied English and French at Dublin University. In that time he became vegetarian and an esperantist. After his studies he became a citizen of Ireland. He began to work as a teacher. He also became active in numerous animal rights and esperantist organizations. He helped refound the anti-vivisection society in 1970 and the vegetarian society in 1978. In 1971 he served as treasurer of the Irish Esperantist Association.

He soon became active in several international organizations, such as the International Vegetarian Union, of which he was European secretary in 1982. and the Global Esperantist Vegetarian Association, of which he was chairman in 1992. During this time he also turned to politics: In 1981 he founded the Ecology Party of Ireland, which later became the Irish Green Party. He stood for the European Parliament in the 1984 elections. In 1984 he founded the Association of Green Esperanists. He is an honorary member of the World Esperanto Association. During this time he continued to work as a teacher, working as a housemaster in a Dublin boarding school.

Currently Fettes is pensioned from teaching and is working to establish an eco-village on an estate he bought in 1991.