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- [August 1948] (Creation)
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6 pp. (3 sheets)
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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 an invitation to Solemn Requiem Anniversary Mass for McCloskey, former Medic in Irish Brigade, for the repose of souls of deceased members of the Brigade, to be held in Adam and Eve Church, Merchant’s Quay, Dublin at 12 o’clock on 26 August 1948, signed by Joseph A. Cunningham, asking McCloskey to ‘Bring Mrs. McCloskey along’. Also includes an invitation in Irish to commemorate crusade in Spain of Irish Brigade, with talk by Father Leander Cleary, Legionnaire of Company ‘B’, at 7 pm on same date at Four Courts Hotel, with autographs from Father Leander Cleary, Captain Padraig Quinn of ‘C’ Company, Frederick Aherne of ‘A’ and ‘D’ Company, C. McCabe of ‘B’ Company and D. Toomey of ‘B’ Company, John L. McSweeney of Irish Independent, Martin N. Murtagh of The Standard, and A. McCloskey. Also includes menu for dinner.
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- Béarla
- Gaeilge
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Available digitally on the University of Limerick Digital Library at https://doi.org/10.34966/uldl.kpv8-2368.