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- 9-22 April 1937 (Creation)
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4 items (10 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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Photocopies of mostly military dispatches from General O’Duffy and nationalist headquarters at Salamanca, including letter from General O’Duffy to Franco addressing the dissolution of Irish Brigade and requesting the formation of another Irish Unit from the Brigadiers who would remain behind (9 April 1937), and a military dispatch which cites the reason for the dissolution of Irish Brigade as being primarily indiscipline.
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- Spáinnis
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Available digitally on the University of Limerick Digital Library at https://doi.org/10.34966/uldl.bamw-9p60.