Partisans#1 The Long Road to Stalingrad: The Origins of the Spanish Civil War
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This is the first episode of Partisans, a new weekly series created by myself and Stewart Reddin. While the series focuses on the experiences of Irish people in the Spanish Civil War, this episode sets the scene. It explains the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War, the crisis that consumed Spanish politics in the 1930s and the far reaching implications of that conflict not least for people in Ireland.
The show starts however at one of the greatest battles in history...
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| 0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
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| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to the Irish history podcast. This is the first episode in the |
| 0:31.0 | series Partisans, Irish stories from the Spanish Civil War, |
| 0:35.6 | created by myself Finn de Weir and Stuart Redden. Over the next 10 episodes this series |
| 0:42.1 | would honor the fascinating if somewhat forgotten figures from Irish history. |
| 0:46.5 | These include communists, Republicans, Catholics, fascists, and spies, all of whom shared one thing in common. |
| 0:55.0 | For one reason or another, they travelled to Spain in the late 1930s to fight in the Spanish Civil |
| 1:01.0 | War. Between 1936 and 1939, Spain was torn apart by a highly unusual Civil War. |
| 1:10.0 | While the battles were fought on Basque, Catalan and Spanish soil, they had far-reaching consequences. |
| 1:15.8 | Pretty much every other country in Europe, and indeed many further afield were affected in some way, shape or form by this conflict. |
| 1:23.7 | Ireland was no different and around 1,000 Irish people would take part in the Spanish |
| 1:28.8 | Civil War. |
| 1:30.8 | They served as soldiers, journalists, nurses, propagandists, and indeed some were even refugees |
| 1:37.2 | fleeing the horrors war inflicted on them. |
| 1:40.9 | In Spain, Irish people would rub shoulders with some of the most famous and indeed notorious figures of the 20th century. |
| 1:48.0 | Veterans of the Spanish Civil War would go on to play pivotal roles in the Second World War while literary figures such |
| 1:55.1 | as George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway were also drawn to the conflict. |
| 1:59.7 | The Irish partisans we are going to meet would fight fight bleed and in some cases die on the |
| 2:04.9 | same battlefields as these people. While the focus of the series is on the |
| 2:09.1 | experiences of Irish people today's show focuses on Spain explaining the backdrop and context to the Civil War. |
| 2:17.0 | To truly understand its significance though, we need to begin in the Second World War at what is often considered to be the greatest battle in world history |
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