Item 8 - Photocopy of a letter from Frank B. Fitzgerald to Denis O’Shaughnassy

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IE 2135 P13/1/1/10/8

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Photocopy of a letter from Frank B. Fitzgerald to Denis O’Shaughnassy

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  • March 1995 (Creation)

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5 pp.

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(Fl. 1980s-2000s)

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Robert Arthur Stradling is professor emeritus of history at Cardiff University, Wales, and a leading authority on the Spanish Civil War. He has published extensively on the topic and made a number of documentaries for Spanish television and BBC Wales.

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Photocopy of a letter from former Irish Brigadier, Frank B. Fitzgerald, Jersey, to Denis O’Shaughnassy, Corbally, county Limerick, complimenting his article in the Limerick Leader and outlining his life after returning from Spain, which included joining the R.A.F. In relation to Spain, notes the first casualty of the Irish Brigade, ‘It was Tom Hyde from Middletown Co Cork one of the flour milling family’, and also describes an attack on the railway line from Madrid noting ‘We blew the train off the track and all the train crew were killed’. In addition, mentions losses to the company and outlines a rescue operation of one of his men, stating ‘I raced up the left bank hoping I might save him. I grabbed his arm while I held on to a small bush on the bank three of my men pulled me and the man out. We wouldn’t have lasted another 30 secs.’ Also records training in base at Cáceres. Also contains section entitled ‘GENERAL FRANCO’S PART IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS’. Paginated.

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  • English

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    Available digitally on the University of Limerick Digital Library at https://doi.org/10.34966/uldl.vqhs-xs63.

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    P13/52

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