Harcourt Street and The Spanish Civil War.
A little known link. The Court Laundry (1903 – 1971) at 58A Harcourt Street acted out as the venue for meetings for the Spanish Aid Committee during the Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1939). [1] Hanna...
View ArticleBob Doyles ‘Brigadista!’ Interview
http://www.dctv.ie “When the Blueshirts –the Irish fascists- caught me on a demonstration through D’Olier Street I was surrounded by a crowd of them. They got me down a laneway off Dame Street and were...
View ArticleCharles Donnelly benefit night – January 29th
Some friends of ours are organising a benefit night next week to help raise money to erect two monuments in the memory of Charles Donnelly, poet, anti fascist and UCD graduate. The first near his...
View ArticleHow they saw the Rising: The words of British Soldiers, Anarchists,...
“What was this Republic of which I now heard for the first time? Who were the leaders the British had executed after taking them prisoners, Tom Clarke, Padraic Pearse, James Connolly and all the...
View ArticleStudents’ Anti-Fascist Meeting, May 1934
Given that this week has seen the unveiling of a mural and the erection of a plaque in memory of the Irish anti-fascists that went to fight in the Spanish Civil War 1936-39, it was great to come across...
View ArticleEven the Olives are Bleeding- 1976 Documentary
Below is the excellent 1976 RTÉ documentary on Irish involvement in the Spanish Civil War (Spanish Anti-Fascist War, 1936-1939) uploaded by our good friend and grandson of brigadista Michael...
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