The recently formed Peter Daly Society Wexford will unveil a memorial stone to the Socialist Republican Peter Daly in Monageer (Enniscorthy) Co. Wexford on Saturday the 3rd of September at 6.00 pm
Peter Daly fought and died with the Irish contingent of the International Brigade in the war against fascism in Spain in September 1937. […]
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THE SONG OF SONGS
Music and Film
Bridewell Hall
St Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ
Saturday, July 16, 2011
7.00 pm
E’en as the sweetest note is born of pain,
So shall the song of songs be born in Spain.
T. E. Nicholas
Music: Michael Chant, Robert Coleridge, Hugh Shrapnel, John White
Film: Stuart Monro
Performers: Miguel Calvo, […]
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The Irish Labour History Museum is at Beggars Bush, Haddington Street, Dublin 4.
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Posted in Spain, Ireland on Jun 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
The Third Annual George Brown Memorial Weekend takes place in Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny on Friday and Saturday, 25/26 June.
George Brown was the son of Francis Brown from Inistioge and Mary Lackey from Tullogher. George was reared in Manchester during the early decades of the twentieth century. At that time it was an urban area of […]
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[Thanks to Ciarán Crossey of Ireland and the Spanish Civil War for the pamphlet.]
A pdf of the pamphlet, which was first published by the Belfast Executive of Republican Clubs in 1976, is available to download here.
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There’s a Valley in Spain called Jarama,
It’s a place that we all know so well,
It is there that we gave of our manhood,
And so many of our brave comrades fell.”
Among the heavy casualties taken by the poorly-equipped Republicans in the bloody battle at Jarama to save Madrid from Franco’s fascist army in February 1937 was […]
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An interview with Bob Doyle on Dublin Community Television, who fought at Belchite, Aragón, Spain, and who died in January this year.
Bob Doyle: last surviving Irish anti fascist fighter of the XV International Brigade RIP from DCTV on Vimeo.
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I will not yield
I will not fall
I will eat dynamite
and one day I will explode like a volcano”
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Posted in Spain, Ireland on Sep 11th, 2008 10 Comments »
I first came across this on Voices en Español, one of my favourite Spanish learning blogs. A pretty funny homage to telenovelas and crap Spanish speakers (like me).
Enjoy.
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