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- 15 January-17 March 1937 (Creation)
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14 items (outsize)
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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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Articles in the Irish Independent and Evening Herald addressing the Spanish Civil War, noting the second church parade of Irish Brigade on Feast of the Epiphany at Salamanca, the unveiling of a tablet by O’Duffy in Church of San Dominic, Cáceres, commemorating First Bandera of Irish Brigade, events in Malaga, response of the pope and bishops, the deaths of Brigadiers Thomas Hyde and Daniel Chute on Madrid front, the issue of refugees, life in barracks at Cáceres, deaths of Brigadiers John MacSweeney and Bernard Horan on the front. Includes a series of articles by the Irish Independent Special Correspondent, Gertrude Gaffney.
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- English