» Declan Kearney
Sinn Féin National Chairperson
“Catalunya and the Basque Country are European issues. It is no longer tenable for the European Union (EU) to remain passive and silent in the face of democracy being denied, and human rights violations being perpetrated: Or, whilst the Spanish government fails to engage in direct, good faith negotiations with the respective political leaderships - Declan Kearney
My interest in the Spanish Civil War was triggered at a young age by a book on the shelf at home.
Later I read accounts of how Irish volunteers, along with many other progressive internationalists, defended the Popular Front republican government from the fascist onslaught, in Mick O’Riordan s Connolly Column , Charlie Donnelly s exceptional Even the Olives are Bleeding , and Seán Cronin s brilliant biography of Frank Ryan, the socialist republican leader who helped to mobilise and lead, the Irish Connolly Column: A story forever immortalised in Christy Moore s tr