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- 1 May 1955-7 December 1997 (Creation)
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53 items (outsize)
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Biographical history
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 newspapers with some photocopies of articles in the Sunday Independent, Irish Press, Sunday Press, Evening Echo, Irish Times, Sunday Tribune, Northern Standard, Tuam Herald and Limerick Chronicle, addressing topics related to the Spanish Civil War, including the return of tri-colour pennant, the battle-flag of Irish Brigade from Spain, death of Joseph Cunningham of Enniscorthy, county Wexford, departure of the Advance Guard from Ireland, the storm in Galway Bay en route to Spain, life at Cáceres, the ruins of Ciempozuelos, Frank Ryan and the International Brigade, commemoration on Achill Island of sixty-one Irish volunteers who died on Republican side, interview with Maurice Fennell from Rathkeale, county Limerick, Waterford and the Spanish Civil War, circumstances of death of Frank Ryan of International Brigade, the centenary of birth of General O’Duffy, planned march on Dublin by Blueshirts, burials of Irish volunteers of International Brigade, the Jarama battle, Limerick volunteers in the Irish Brigade, and stories of International Brigadiers, Peter O’Connor, Eugene Downing and Michael O’Riordan. Includes a series of articles by T. P. Kilfeather in the Sunday Independent.
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The material has been arranged chronologically by date.
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- Béarla