The Salamanca Diaries: La perspectiva de Alexander McCabe sobre la Bandera Irlandesa del Tercio

Abstract

One of the most recent historiographical contributions on the participation of the Irish brigade recruited by General Eoin O’Duffy in the Spanish Civil War is Tim Fanning’s edition of The Salamanca Diaries (2019), an extensively annotated selection of texts taken from the profuse personal diaries of Father Alexander McCabe, rector of the Irish College in Salamanca during the war period. Through his laborious analysis of the huge handwritten material, in quite illegible and tight handwriting, Fanning has rescued an essential source for the reconstruction of the events that accompanied this irregular adventure of the Irish volunteers who came to Spain in 1936 to fight on the Franco side.

Keywords

• irish brigade
• eoin o’duffy
• alexander mccabe
• the salamanca diaries
• spanish civil war