Item 4 - Photocopy of a letter from Patrick Hickey to his parents

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IE 2135 P13/1/1/2/4

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Photocopy of a letter from Patrick Hickey to his parents

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  • 20 March 1937 (Creation)

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3 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 Patrick Hickey, ‘C’ Company Irish Brigade, c/o Caixa Postal 71 or 74, Lisbon, Portugal, reassuring his parents of his wellbeing and describing life in the trenches: ‘did you not get my other letters I wrote 6 of them so did Teddy [Ryan] and Frank [Hempenstall] they were in a bad way when I told them about not getting there letters at home… you saw in the papers about some of our fellows being killed it was pretty tough as they were very nice chaps, our Company was leading the attack that day and not one of us was hurt, we are up beside Madrid now we can see it in the distance it look very big from where we are’.

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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.p4tz-1m70.

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    P13/5

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