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- [14 August 1994] (Création/Production)
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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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Sound recording of an interview conducted by Robert Stradling with the younger brother of Major Patrick Dalton, Officer Commanding of Irish Brigade in Spain, noting that Patrick would not have gone to Spain had his mother been alive. Also states that his brother had been an officer in the Irish Free State Army, and then worked in Dublin with Bookmaker, Joe Cunningham. States that Dalton was a personal friend of O’Duffy and was in charge of Blueshirts in Dublin. Notes his motivation to join the Brigade as being religious, and also the fact that Dalton stopped his brothers from volunteering also, stating ‘he said that one was enough’. Also notes lack of recognition of O’Duffy’s men by the church and the state.
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This item comprises magnetic tape and is too fragile to be safely handled.
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- anglais
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Available digitally on the University of Limerick Digital Library at https://doi.org/10.34966/uldl.asxk-cz55.