Agonia republicana - living the death of an era: 1939
Spanish Civil War International Conference
To mark the 70th year since the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, the Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Dublin, Trinity College, in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes, Dublin, is organizing an International Conference. It aims to bring together a wide range of experts of that time from an interdisciplinary perspective,with a particular focus not only on the wider implications of Franco´s victory but also on how the forces of power moved ordinary lives to extraordinary degrees.
The Conference dates are 13th - 16th July 2009
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The Irish and the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War threw Irish politics, north and south of the border, into turmoil. Tragic events in Spain aroused emotive responses across the spectrum of Irish society. In contrast to most other communities of the British Isles, citizens of the Irish Free State were mainly pro-Franco. But many on the left felt a strong identification with the plight of the Spanish Republic. Ireland sent organised bodies of men to fight on opposed sides in the Spanish Civil War. The International Brigade volunteers were led by the IRA warrior, Frank Ryan. Their rivals, who became a battalion of Franco´s Foreign Legion were mostly members of the semi-fascist Blueshirts, and were commanded by the ex-leader of that movement, General Eoin O´Duffy. In late 1936, two enemy crusades - Communist and Catholic - left Ireland to fight it out in Spain.
by Robert Stradling, Professor of History at Cardiff University of Wales
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