Spanish Civil War memorial - fundraiser

national | history and heritage | event notice

Thursday November 10, 2005 00:58

by pat reade - Int Brigade Commemoration Committee

'Poetry Reading and Song'

Fund raiser for N Ireland memorial to the 21 local dead from the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39.

'Poetry Reading and Song'
@ 3pm on
Sunday 13th November 2005
in the
John Hewitt bar
lower Donegall Street, Belfast.
The words of
Kate O'Brien
Frederico Garcia Lorca
and
Pablo Neruda

will be read and performed by:-
Maria Gallego-Calderon (Spain)
Catherine Rojas-Olavarria (Chile)
Gerard McLaughlin
Gerry James

All welcome. Spread the word.
Admission £5.00
Please copy and distribute

Organised by the Belfast based International Brigade Commenoration Committee

Comments (6 of 6)

Spanish Civil War

by Learner

Thu Nov 10, 2005 15:42

Can anyone recommend books/other sources, in English, on the Spanish Civil War.

I am especially interested in the reasons for the defeat of the popular front - divisions between Communists and Anarchists etc

Learner

by historian

Thu Nov 10, 2005 15:53

Orwell's 'Homage to Catalonia' and Koestler's autobiography are good start.

Another...

by Jo Ta Ke

Thu Nov 10, 2005 16:14

Ex-Brit Anthony Beevor's book (also wrote Stalingrad, Berlin 1945) provides the bare details but is a very good concise account

Orwell

by historian

Thu Nov 10, 2005 17:13

Some good advice before you read any history of the period:

"From the anti-Fascist angle one could write a broadly truthful history of the war, but it would be a partisan history, unreliable on every minor point. Yet, after all, some kind of history will be written, and after those who actually remember the war are dead, it will be universally accepted. So for all practical purposes the lie will have become truth. "

orwell

by pat c

Thu Nov 10, 2005 17:51

make sure you read "Homage To Catalonia" by George Orwell.

Spanish Cockpit: An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War by Franz Borkenau, Phoenix 2000, is also good.

Revolution and Counter revolution in Spain

by Joe C - Unite

Fri Nov 11, 2005 12:32

An excellent account from a revolutionary socialist perspective written by American SWP member Felix Murrow. Thanks to marxists.org, it's all on the web.