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D/2455/2
Seamus MacCall "The Time I didn’t
Broadcast"
Hand-written note, published IP Sept. 1952
[Irish Press]
P3.
He was asked by the Dept. of External Affairs
to work for the International Commission for Non Intervention.
P4.
At his point on the French-Spanish border only
3 members of the ICNI staff had any knowledge of Spanish.
P5.
He was in the Le Perthus, on a main road, in a
multi-lingual force. (See above). He was there 2 years.
P11.
Witnessed "a flight of Franco’s
German bombers come swooping down on a field which was crowded
with refugees waiting for permission to cross into France, then
the indescribable scene immediately following... and then the
procession of improvised stretchers, with blood-stained blankets
over un-dressed wounds, and women and children tottering mutely
beside them".
D.1625/19
in the
papers of Sean Cunningham
Commemorative List
"Irish Brigade Crusade Against
Communism" en route for Spain.
- General Eoin O’Duffy, Officer Commanding
- Major P.Dalton, Dublin
- Capt. T.Hyde, Midleton, Co. Cork
- Cap. P Quinn, Gowran House, Co. Kilkenny
- Commandant Sean Cunningham, Belfast
- T.F.Smith, M.I.B.E., Dublin
- D.J.Kelly, Roscommon
- T.P.Gunning, Dublin
Left Ireland 20/11/36, Liverpool 21/11/36 by
S.S."Avoceta"
[Inside the brochure are 2 pages with lists of
names]
Dublin
- FL Castin
- TV Casserley
- SP Clarke
- L Dunne
- T Jolly, Blackrock
- W Levey
- James McKenna
- R Butler, Blackrock
- J Moran, Shrule, Co Mayo
- E Murphy, Roundwood, Co Wicklow
- H Murphy
- R Murphy
- IV O’Neil
- S Pidgeon
- GB Timlin
- W Weynes
- Carlow -Kilkenny
- B Fitzsimons, TC, Carlow
- JC Dunphy
- P Dunny
- Prof. J Cunningham, Knockbeg College
- T Hudson, Newmarket
- M Flannagan, Kilkenny
- M Kelly, St. Mullans
Belfast
- Brendan Kielty, Greencastle
- John Cleary
- Patrick Ward
- Joseph McKenna
Cork
- M Cagney, South Mall
- J Twomey, Turner’s Cross
- T O’Riordan, Midleton
West of Ireland
- T Burbage, Longford
- J Hughes, Longford
- Joseph G Dowdall, O.P., Copro Santo, Lisbon
[So in this brochure there are 8 officers, 33
men and a priest who was based in Portugal]
D.1625.26
is a
brief piece from the Irish News, 11/3/63, on the death of Sean
Cunningham.
" He joined Gen. O’Duffy’s
Brigade that went to Spain in 1936 to fight with Gen.
Franco’s forces, serving as a Capt. in charge of a heavy
machine gun company and being personally complimented by Gen.
Franco on one occasion."
D.3929/4/1
Minutes of the Newry Labour Party, 29/6/37 to
30/6/38. These minutes are very brief and serve to illustrate how
the established Labour organisations did not build support for
the Spanish republican cause.
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