Apr 16 2022 63 mins 14
Last week marked the 91st anniversary of the founding of the Second Spanish Republic while this Easter weekend Irish republicans will be conducting their annual commemorations of the Easter Rising. In this episode I welcome Uma Arruga i Lopez to the show. Uma is a fellow contributor to Red Pepper and Jacobin magazine and is a Catalan writer and historian whose undergraduate thesis focused on Irish involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Uma is currently completing an MA focusing on conflict and war studies and has also written articles on the 1936 Socialist Olympics, as well as further piece on Irish involvement in the International Brigades in Spain for Peace, Land and Bread magazine Subscribe to the Patreon to support the show at paypal.com/danielbaker You can also support the show by subscribing to the Substack blog and newsletter at echoandthunder.substack.com
