Irish News reports on SCW,
July to December 1938
23rd
Page
5 Anti-Italian Scene
in Dublin
Communists
demonstrate against visiting sailors
Guards
intervene in street disorders
[A
report on events in Dublin the previous day.] A number of youths “jeered at
them, crying ‘to hell with Mussolini,’ ‘what about the bombings in Spain?’ ‘Up
the Spanish Brigade,’ (evidently referring to the International Brigade) and so
on.”
At
least one sailor was hit. Two training ships had arrived in the harbour on the
22nd, the Amerigo Cespussi and the Colombo.
25th
Page
5 col. 5 Italian
sailors in Dublin
[Reports
of further attacks on these sailors.]
26th
Going
back to the first attack on the sailors, the paper says that it was an attack
on 20 sailors.
8th
Page
2
[Book
review of Spain of the Spaniards by Bernard Wall. Praised as an
'impartial' report. Approx 10 inches.]
8th
Page
6 Jesuit weekly condemns Spanish Propaganda
Film
[An
attack by US Jesuits on the film 'Blockade' which is 'produced by Communists
and Marxist ideologists.'
12th
Page
5
[A
report on the disappearance of Dario Ortuzar, an officer on one of the 3
Spanish ships held in Derry. He disappeared while swimming at Greencastle.
13th
Page
4 Editorial Spain Bombing
[Complaints
over claims for compensation by owners of British ships that had been bombed in
Spain. Essentially the editorial says that the UK should recognise that Franco
is fighting a war and that therefore no money is to be paid by him.]
22nd
Page
2 Book review: The Church in
Spain: Rich or poor? By Rev. T J Feeney, SJ, printed by the CTS of Ireland
at 1d.
22nd
Page
4 Editorial Franco
Makes Answer
22nd
Page
5 col. 1-3 [An extensive
printing of a speech by Franco on the proposals to withdraw foreign troops.]
23rd
Page
4 Editorial Reactions to General Franco's 'No'
27th
Page
7. [The funeral mass for the 1st
officer of the Gorbea Mendi, one of the ships held in Derry. The service for
Senor D Ortugar, who drowned on August 11th, was held in St Eugene's Cathedral
and attended by 300.
14th
Page
4 Editorial Spain and
China
19th
Page
4 The
Lull in Spain
[The
paper describes the lack of interest in Spain and a lull in the fighting.]
23rd
Page
4 Editorial A Game of Hide and Seek
[The
Irish News does not believe Negrins account of the International Brigade
withdrawal.]
30th
Page
4 Editorial Spain and it's Aliens.
11th
Page
4 Editorial Recognition for Franco?
‘When
the war clouds were hanging over the entire Continent of Europe the civil
strife in Spain was almost entirely forgotten….....[now] recognition may be
granted Franco, not through any love of Nationalist Spain, but because it is no
longer of service to let the old farcical policy [of not recognising Franco] be
continued.’
13th
Page
6 Editorial Spain becomes Spanish
[On
the withdrawal of foreign troops on both sides. This will cost Franco 20,000
troops and unknown numbers on the Republican side. ‘One thing is certain, that
victory will come in the Generalissimo’s own good time.’]
1st
Page
5 col. 3 Scene at
Debate in Belfast
Midgley
had spoken the previous night in the YMCA Minor Hall on The Truth about Spain.
A man who criticised his address was 'howled down.' The meeting was organised
by the YMCA Literary and Debating Society.
This
report was followed the next day by a letter from Midgley p4, stating that the
heckler had been given lots of time to speak.
4th
Page
8 Mr
Midgley in Dublin
[A
report of a lecture by Midgley to the Fabian Society in TCD. The Challenge
to democracy dealt with Spain. He was challenged about not speaking more on
the 'challenge to democracy in Ireland.'
Peadar
O'Donnell seconded the motion of thanks, he said that he'd met Midgley at a
Belfast meeting in support of Spanish prisoners.]
14th
Page
2: Book Review. The Spanish Arena by William Foss and Cecil Gerahty,
published by Gifford. A short positive review.
14th
Page
4 Editorial Non Intervention
21st
Page
4 Editorial The losses of the Ebro
[This
reports that there were 100,000 dead, 70,000 of these being republicans.]
'Though
the armies pass over the Ebro and the ground on which this epic engagement was
fought may become valueless, it will never be forgotten....The spirit which
caused the war may widen in civil life over the unforgettable losses of the
Ebro.
28th
Page
6 col. 3 Members of
the Irish Brigade in Spain
Aliens
and not entitled to the franchise?
Enniskillen Revision Court Arguments.
[Unionists
were trying to stop the four members of the Irish Brigade who'd returned to
Enniskillen from getting onto the Electoral Register. The argument was that
these men had sworn an oath to Franco, therefore they were Spanish! One of the
men was named as Thomas Mackell of Enniskillen. The Unionists lost the case,
the men were entitled to vote.]
7th
Page
5 'Seven young men from Ireland are among the party of 306 British members of
the disbanded International brigade in red Spain who will arrive by special
train from Newhaven today.'
10th
Page
6 Editorial Religious Freedom
'Catholicism
has triumphed in Red Spain.' [This is dealing with the Barcelona government's
announcement of religious freedom.]
12th
Page
2: Book Reviews.
Reviews
of Foss and Geraghty's Spanish Arena; Florence Farmborough's Life and
people of Nationalist Spain and Prof. Charles Sarolea's Daylight on
Spain. These were generally positive reviews.
14th
Page
8 Six County
Men back from Spain
Fought
with International Brigade
Seven
Six County men who fought in the International Brigade in Spain have returned.
Four of them reached Belfast on Monday.
They
are: Hugh Hunter, of York Street, Belfast; W Lord, Upper Library St, Belfast;
Richard McAleenan, Sheeptown, Newry and a Lurgan man.
Yesterday
R Boyle, Falls Road, Belfast; J Hanlon, Woodstock Street, Belfast and W Fulton,
who joined the brigade in Australia, arrived.
Six
Belfastmen were killed: W Beattie and W loughran, Shankilll road; W Henry,
Bradford Street, Old Lodge Road, Ben Murray and W Tumelson, Newtownards Road
and R O'Neill, Falls Road all of Belfast. A seventh man was killed, P Haughey,
Lurgan, and J Straney, Falls Road, Belfast, is missing.
15th
Page
4. Reply to
Ulster Society's Congratulations
[The
Ulster evangelical Protestant Society had sent congratulations to Negrin over
the government's policy of allowing 'civil and religious liberty.' ]
20th
Page
2 Spanish Ship
released
[The
Spanish Nationalist's got a court order for the release of the Cobetas,
arrested and held in Belfast since August 3rd 1937.]
31st
Page
4 Editorial Fight to a finish?
[This
editorial expects Franco's victory by May 1939.]