Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 6 March 1937 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
3 pp.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
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.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Photocopy of a letter from Patrick Hickey, ‘C’ Company Irish Brigade, c/o Caixa Postal 71 or 74, Lisbon, Portugal to his parents, describing life in the trenches: ‘Well mother we are on the front line at last it is safe enough only for the shells comeing over but we have got that used to them comeing over that we take them as a joke… we get paid every week and we spend on grub and cigs, I never touch the drink now it is only a cod getting drunk out here you need your head where I am… Well mother it is terrible to see the way the Reds smashed up the chapels here it would make your blood boil but they are rotten cowards’.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- Béarla
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Available digitally on the University of Limerick Digital Library at https://doi.org/10.34966/uldl.wkgn-6p42.