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- 10 August 1933-Summer 1996 (Creation)
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36 items (220 sheets, of which 4 pages 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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Photocopies of articles in various publications addressing the Spanish Civil War, such as the Spanish newspaper Solidaridad Obrera, and journals such as The Irish Monthly, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Journal of Breifne Historical Society, proceedings from the House of Commons, Studia Hibernica, Journal of Irish Studies, History Ireland and Volunteer for Liberty. Includes a poem entitled 'O’DUFFY, THE CHIEF OF THE “NATIONAL GUARD"', signed ‘L.O.’ and dated 10 August 1933, an article in Spanish in Solidaridad Obrera entitled ‘LA FUGURA DEL DIA. DE VALERA’, accusing Eamon De Valera of fascist sympathies (1938), and also a number of quotes in Italian from diplomat, Lodi Fé, concerning General O’Duffy, in Keogh’s Eye Witness, which includes the following translation, ‘O’Duffy is not a man of great intellectual resources; he has neither culture nor much political sense, other than a certain coarse intuition. He is above all a man of action, of great personal courage, disinterested and generous. These qualities, in the right circumstances, can make of him a useful and safe tool – Therefore it is expedient not to forget him’ (29 January 1937). In addition, an article in the Irish Ecclesiastical Record by Rev. Arthur H. Ryan, entitled ‘SPAIN, THE CHURCH, AND EUROPE’, noting events in Spain, an essay by J. Bowyer Bell in Studia Hibernica entitled ‘Ireland and the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939’, an essay by Mike Cronin entitled ‘Blueshirts, Sports and Socials’, an article in Breifne by Dermot Keogh entitled ‘AN EYE WITNESS TO HISTORY: FR ALEXANDER J. McCABE AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR 1936-1939’, an article entitled ‘Claremen in the Spanish Civil War’ by Peadar McNamara, and the Roll of Honour of Irishmen who fell in action in Spain whilst fighting on the Republican side and a list of International Brigadiers from Ireland that survived.
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The material has been arranged chronologically by date.
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Language of material
- English
- Italian
- Spanish