"Irish Bandera in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1937" Topic
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Tango01 | 28 Apr 2020 3:44 p.m. PST |
"Spain's Civil War (1936-April 1939) was a prolonged, bloody struggle for not only control over the country of Spain but for the soul of the nation as well. Many of the international volunteers fighting for both the republican government and the nationalist rebels have been discussed thoroughly in a wealth of differing historical accounts. The Abraham Lincoln Battalion included mostly Americans and some Canadians and is often recalled in popular and academic histories. Some Irish soldiers fought for the Republican cause in the "Connolly Column" which was attached to the larger Lincoln Battalion. Opposing the government's Republican military forces in 1936-1937, one small brigade of 600 soldiers is nonetheless one of the most bizarre, the Irish Brigade or Bandera, a corps size unit attached to the Spanish Foregin Legion who traveled from Ireland to defend Spanish Catholicism and to fight for international fascism in Spain. For the Nationalist rebels, the German Condor Legion and Italian Corpo Truppe Volontaire offered tens of thousands of soldiers and millions of dollars worth of weapons and material. Several hundred additional volunteers came from neighboring Portugal too but is the Irish Bandera, XV Tercio de Bandera, who offer a most unique study in the international brigades who fought for Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Nationalist Army, 1936-1939…"
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Makhno1918 | 30 Apr 2020 8:46 a.m. PST |
….twas better to die, 'neath an irish sky… |
Tango01 | 30 Apr 2020 1:00 p.m. PST |
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deadhead | 15 May 2020 1:28 p.m. PST |
Shame is that if you follow the link offered you read; "Sorry, the page you were looking for in this blog does not exist." Which I found discouraging. Irish fascism was well established in the late thirties and many an "eejet" felt that his religion and hatred of communism could lead him to the Iberian peninsula. Most of them would have been untrained kids or former Free State veterans and of very little use. The residue of the IRA would have been on the other side of course and even then most would have been ex guerillas and not veterans of the WWI battlefields. |
MacColla | 18 May 2020 11:34 a.m. PST |
In the 1960s I met an Irishman who had fought in the Spanish Legion in the "Crusada" having heard from his priest about atrocities against the Church by the reds. He "excused himself" at the end of the Civil War and returned home. He was no fascist. In 1939 he volunteered for the British Army and fought in Greece, North Africa and Europe. He was a very brave man who fought for what he believed in and I admired him enormously. |
deadhead | 27 May 2020 1:42 p.m. PST |
Sorry I am so late back to this and thank MacColla for his input (assume his of course and not hers, but what the hell). Brave men fought for all causes, causes which they believed in. Irish Fascist movements (The Blue Shirts there) were like any other country's. At the time, international Communism was seen as the threat, Catholicism ruled and most of them had never met a racial inferior, as seen by the Nazis (or if so, in Eire, had not even thought of discriminating against them) The Irish citizen's role in the wars of the 1930s/40s is almost as baffling as the Finns' as the war progressed. If you volunteered for service in the UK armed forces, it took many decades for that to become remotely acceptable. If you left military service in Eire, to join the battle against fascism, you were a deserter and subject to military law! Dev has a lot to answer for and somewhere in heaven is the likes of Paddy Finucane calling him every kind of eejet for his crazy handling of what was called "The Emergency" |
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