Irish International Brigadistas, 2004 list of 244 volunteers

There are, to put it mildly, some differences on who would make a list of the Irish involved with the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. There are problems over memory and problems with the records. The real difficulty is who or what is an Irish person! Although not being a football fan, this site originally used the principle of the Irish and Northern Irish football teams. In other words; those born in Ireland, or of Irish parents/grandparents, no matter where the individual themselves were born. BUT on further consideration we've tightened this up. People listed here were if they were born here or had Irish parents.

So I have included Irish-Americans, Irish born in England, etc. Having said this, there are probably still errors in this list, but please contact me with corrections.

O'Riordan in his book listed 145 people; this list now exceeds 240. Ciaran 25th May 2004

E-mail me, Ciaran Crossey at: cpcrossey@hotmail.com, with any corrections, information, etc.

Robert A. Stradling compiled a list for his book, The Irish and the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. Published by Mandolin, an imprint of Manchester University Press, and 1999. http://www.man.ac.uk/mup ISBN 1901341135, cost Ł10.95

Additional people have been added by checking the list of Feargal McGarry, in Irish Politics and the Spanish Civil War, ISBN 1859182402, Cork University Press, 1999, Ł15.95 as well as a number of other sources, all indicated.

These combined lists give a potential total for Irish involvement on the Republican side as 244 (see McLaughlin and Blake notes). Having said that, the "Irish" includes those of Irish decent or some of even inclination!

These 2 were listed on the original International Brigades memorial banner, but are not Irish.
Samuel Lee London d. Jarama 0237 MoRiordan
John Scott S Africa d. Jarama 0237 MoRiordan

Jim Brady is listed in Stradlings book, on the basis of the words of the C Moore song. But on rechecking this, see the Peter O'Connor pamphlet that replaces JB with "Jim Straney of the Falls", this makes more sense even if is wrong geographically, JS was from the Short Strand.

BA	Bill Alexander	British Volunteers
CC	Clare Champion	21st December 1979
DT	Dublin Tribune	11th October 1990
EO	Eoin O’Duffy	Crusade
ER	Esmond Romilly	Boadilla
GK	Gustav Klaus	Strong Words, Strong Deeds
	Hopkins	Into the Fire. p268 "had been in Spain since October 1937. He was 28, Irish, and judged an 'incorrigible, useless type.' In his file the commissar noted tersely that Meeke was shot while attempting to escape. [Info. From Soviet archives. The impression I take from the book is that this death was in Jan, 1938.]
IB	International Brigade	IB Association Archives, London
IA		Irish Archives
IT	Irish Times	9th April 1975 and 29th September 1997
JG	John Gerassi	Premature Antifascists
JM	Joe Monks	With the Reds in Spain
KJ	Kate Johnsson	Spanish Collection
KW	Keith Watson	Single to Spain
LC	Limerick Chronicle	27th October 1938
MO	Michael O'Riordan	Connolly Column
Manus	Manus O'Riordan	Irish and Jewish volunteers in the Spanish anti-fascist war. 1987
NM		National Museum of Labour History
OA	RTE	Even the Olives are Bleeding
RS	Robert Stradling	Brother against Brother
SA		Spanish Archives
SC	Sean Cronin	Frank Ryan
SP	Sunday Press	29th May 1983

The following Irish names (whose owners may have been Irish born) occur in the Spanish Archives:

Sources

International Brigadiers

and other anti-fascists of Irish origin