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Armagh - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 Spanish Civil War Exhibition and Discussion 8pm Friday 1st August 2008 @ Cathedral Road, Armagh armagh |
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 Monday July 21, 2008 15:52 by Gareth Mackle - Féile Ard Mhacha Thiar / West Armagh Community Festival westarmagh at aol dot com Cathedral Road Community Complex, 20 Cathedral Road, Armagh 028 (048) 37522759
 Remembering the International Brigades The story of the Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1939) is one of the most emotional tragedies of 20th Century history. From all over the world, democrats, socialists, anarchists, communists, republicans and progressive liberals volunteered to defend the Democratic Republic of Spain from an attempted coup d’état by the Fascist General Francisco Franco and his allies in Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy. While the major western powers stood back and allowed democracy and freedom in Spain to be overrun and crushed by a fascist dictatorship, many brave men and women gave their lives to honour the democratic will of the Spanish people. A significant number of those who fought and died for the Spanish Republic came from Ireland and many were made famous in Christy Moore’s version of the ballad ‘Viva La Quince Brigada’. Names like Bob Hilliard, the Church of Ireland pastor, and Charlie Donnelly, the young republican poet, are now synonymous with a fight for freedom that paid no heed to religious or ethnic distinction. The Fifteenth International Brigade was made up primarily of volunteers from Britain, France, Ireland and America.
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