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- 5 and 19 December 1936 (Creation)
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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 two articles from Mayo News, first entitled ‘YOUNG WESTPORT MAN LEAVES FOR SPAIN TO FIGHT FOR INSURGENTS WITH GEN. O’DUFFY’, which begins ‘Mr. Matthew Beckett of the Quay Road, Westport, left here on the 1.45 p.m. train on Monday’, noting Beckett as second Mayo man to leave for Spain, with 130 Irishmen having already left on the Brigade Advance Guard (5 December 1936). The second article entitled ‘SEVERAL MAYO MEN SAIL FOR SPAIN. UNNOTICED DEPARTURE’, begins ‘Over 100 Irish men left Dublin last Friday night, en route for Spain’, identifying eight Mayo men amongst the party who left on Friday night. Also notes figures for Dublin, Limerick and Cork, and records departure of 700 Irishmen from Galway Bay, and the establishment of a rival party to fight on the government side in Spain, under the charge of Frank Ryan (19 December 1936).
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- English