The Irish Communist Partisan (Partisans #3)
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we continue the story of the Irish people who fought in the Spanish Civil War. Our focus turns to the life of Bob Doyle. A member of the IRA and later a communist his life explains why people went on to fight against fascism in Spain. Beginning with his early childhood set to the backdrop of grinding poverty in Dublin slums, the podcast is an evocative and fascinating journey through one family's experience of the struggle for Irish Independence and the decades that followed.
Along the way we will find ourselves in riots with fascists in the streets of Dublin and conflict within the IRA in the 1930s which led many of it's activists to Spain.
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| 0:46.9 | Sims and more from an award-winning retailer. Hello and welcome to the Irish History Podcast. In this episode we continued the series |
| 1:01.9 | Partisans by looking at the story of the IRA member and later communist Bob Doyle. |
| 1:08.0 | This is the third installment of Partisans created by myself Finneewire and Stuart Redden. |
| 1:14.7 | It tells the forgotten stories of Irish people who fought in the Spanish Civil War between |
| 1:19.9 | 1936 and 1939. Part 1 looked at the background to the conflict, while Part 2 introduced the first of our |
| 1:27.9 | partisans, Aileen O'Brien, a shadowy figure who shed light and why Irish people fought for Spanish fascism. |
| 1:35.5 | In this podcast, the last one set in Ireland before we moved to Spain, our focus turns to |
| 1:40.8 | the life of Bob Doyle, an Irish Republican and later a communist, his life explains |
| 1:46.4 | why people went to fight against fascism. Set to the backdrop of grinding poverty in Dublin |
| 1:52.3 | slums in the early 20th century. |
| 1:54.8 | This podcast is an evocative and fascinating journey through the lives of those on the margins |
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