Comments on: BOB DOYLE, 1916-2009

By: Conor

Conor — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:55:13 +0000

first-hand account on the way, as soon as I finish up with my job, again!

By: Donagh

Donagh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:45:06 +0000

anarchaeologist, who has commented above also has a very good feature article on Indymedia: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/91124

Here’s the O’Connell Street procession…

By: Seán Báite

Seán Báite — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:36:01 +0000

Buíochas le Ciarán ó Crá Croí Cois Cuain :
First account I’ve come across (along with about an hour of video footage visible on YouTube) of events around last Saturday’s return of Bob Doyle’s ashes to Dublin *:
http://cracroi.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/adios-companero/
I looked over Manus O’Riordan’s few words - knowing him more as a singer than a union man. In so doing, I find that the spirit of William Martin Murphy is alive and well :
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/the-devil-might-indeed-have-the-best-tunes-but-it-is-the-lefties-who-have-easily-the-best-myths-1630079.html
Equip yourselves with pukebags before reading - shite - too late. I would have thought ‘decorum’ was the sort of word a little twerp like Myers liked using - but he clearly lacks the slightest trace of any. I suppose it was the same paper that served as a recruiter for O’Duffy back in the days.

* looking at the footage of the march on O’Connell St., I can see that the Greens in power has at least secured a ’suicide lane’ for cyclists on Europe’s most magnificent fast food boulevard

By: anarchaeologist

anarchaeologist — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:45:29 +0000

DO will find that that little error has been corrected! All are welcome on Saturday bty. There’s a bit of music to be provided by Christy Moore among others and all the other things you’d associate with a good wake (tea, sandwiches and yes, booze).

By: Seán Báite

Seán Báite — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:36:51 +0000

There’s a poster put up over here at the Cedar Lounge http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/bob-doyle-1916-2009-xv-international-brigade-celebrate-bobs-life-saturday-14th-february via anarchaeologist about Saturday’s commemoration of Bob Doyle.
It gives more details about when and where.
DO take no liability for placement of accents on external sites…

By: Conor McCabe

Conor McCabe — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:36:50 +0000

Es verdad. I saw Bob Doyle speak back in 2006. He was talking about how young people come up to him and say “well, if I was alive back in 1936 I would have fought in Spain. That was the real fight”, and Bob Doyle’s answer was “there’s a fight going on today!” It was quite wonderful to hear this man in his 90s saying, “well yes, Spain, all of that, but really, I want to talk about the struggle today.” The type of fight has changed, but it carries on.

By: Moka

Moka — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:27:19 +0000

““¿Sacrificaron en vano sus vidas mis camaradas?” La respuesta dependerá de Uds. Tomen la lucha y únanse en la larga batalla por la más noble de las causas: la liberación de la humanidad. Entonces, el sacrificio de mis camaradas no habrá sido en vano; habrá sido una fuente de aliento. LA LUCHA CONTINÚA.”

By: Conor McCabe

Conor McCabe — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:24:41 +0000

Thanks for that, Harry. I’ll make sure to publish the details as it gets closer to the date.

By: anarchaeologist

anarchaeologist — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:17:49 +0000

Harry Owens has asked the following be posted:

Bob’s family expect to hold the funeral in London at 11.30am on Tuesday 10th next.
Following that, family members plan to come to Dublin where on Sat 14th February we will celebrate the lives of Bob and his comrades of the International Brigades, starting at 12 noon from the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, proceeding down O’Connell Street, and turning left along the Liffey to Liberty Hall where a wreath will be laid at the plaque with the names of 60 Irish Brigaders who died in Spain.
We’ll book a trade union premises in the centre of Dublin for a reception, with speeches, songs and music, hopefully a film or two, and the gathering of all the many friends and relatives of Bob and his comrades. Speakers from Madrid are expected, and we ask
all coming to bring your banners, and we will send you full details (venue etc.) shortly.
Please pass on this message to all interested,
La Lucha Continua!

Harry Owens

By: Seán Báite

Seán Báite — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:30:34 +0000

He manages to get a mention from the Irish Times (piece by Barry Roche / Luke Cassidy) :
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0124/1232474679491.html
and even BBC Norn Iron - even though their write-up is half a very broadly sketched sum-up of the Spanish Civil War :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7847826.stm

I remember Belchite alright - and going out there with youse on a Sunday… and you mentioning Bob Doyle having fought there.