Posted in Spanish Civil War, 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 […]
Posted in Spanish Civil War, Irish Labour History, Spain on May 28th, 2010 No Comments »
[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.
Posted in Spanish Civil War, irish culture, Irish Labour History, Spain on Jan 22nd, 2010 3 Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Zaragoza, Irish Working Class, Irish History, Irish Labour History, Spain on Dec 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
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Posted in Irish Marxism, Zaragoza, Irish Labour History, Spain, Ireland on Mar 10th, 2009 2 Comments »
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.
Posted in obituary, Zaragoza, Working Class, Irish History, Irish Labour History, Spain on Jan 24th, 2009 12 Comments »
I will not yield
I will not fall
I will eat dynamite
and one day I will explode like a volcano”
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.
Posted in Zaragoza, Spain on Jun 29th, 2008 4 Comments »
By request, for Miriam, Oscar (x2), Elena (x2), Armando, Sonia, Jesús, and Caeser.
Enjoy.
Posted in Zaragoza, Spain on Jun 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
¡Venga España! Roll on Russia!
Now, they’re not from Spain, but sure any ‘aul excuse to play this song.
Enjoy!
Posted in Zaragoza, Spain, satire on Apr 24th, 2008 2 Comments »
Thanks to my friend Armando for this one.
(Very) roughly translated, the bits at the start read:
“Learn English with the Generalisimo! An easy and efficient method.
Read out loud the subtitles, along with the caudillo .
The centre for the study of “Unfortunate Humans” guarantees you that, at the end of this video, you will enjoy […]