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- [Mid 1990s] (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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Sound recording of an interview conducted by Robert Stradling with Tony Hyde, from Midleton, Cork, younger brother of Lieutenant Tom Hyde, who served in ‘A’ Company of Irish Brigade in Spain. Records that Tom was an idealist and his Christian faith motivated him to go to Spain at age of around thirty-seven. Refers to accounts of atrocities carried out on priests and nuns in Spain, how Tom met O’Duffy in the National Corporate Party, and how he was wounded during the Irish Civil War. Also addresses popularity of Tom amongst men at home and in Spain, the events surrounding his death in February 1937, and recognition of Irish Brigade by politicians, the government and the church.
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This item comprises magnetic tape and is too fragile to be safely handled.
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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.p69q-ce53.