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ON THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
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May 24th 鈥 13:30 18:30 鈥 Glucksman Gallery River Room
24th May 2019
River Room, Lewis Glucksman Gallery
13:30-18:30
Commemorating the end of the Spanish Civil War, this seminar attempts to map the impact of the conflict in present-day Iberian societies and cultures. Understanding the Civil War in its long dur茅e, as a cornerstone episode that marked contemporary sociopolitical configurations in obvious and not so obvious ways, this event gathers literary, visual, historical and personal perspectives as a way of expanding the discussion on the multiple and conflicting memories of the War.
Seminar Schedule:
13:30-14:00 Seminar Introduction by Rafael Jaime and Carlos Garrido
14:00-15:00 A Place of Greater Safety: Irish Aid Worker Mary Elmes and the Child Refugees of the Spanish Civil War by Clodagh Finn (journalist)
15:00-15:30 Cultural Responses to Barbarism in Galicia: The Case of Alexandre B贸veda Post 1936 by Mart铆n Veiga (UCC SPLAS)
15:30-16:00 Places and Spaces of the Republican Exodus of 1939 in Catalonia at the End of the Spanish Civil War by Rafael Jaime (UCC SPLAS)
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 Peadar O鈥橠onnell: An Irishhman in Spain, 1936 by Donal 脫 Drisceoil (UCC, Department of History)
17:30-18:30 Closing Remarks. The Spanish Civil War. Eighty years later by Eduard Puigvent贸s (Autonomous 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Barcelone)
Lecture Outline
A Place of Greater Safety: Irish aid worker Mary Elmes and the child refugees of the Spanish Civil War by Clodagh Finn.
Corkwoman Mary Elmes and her fellow workers developed a pioneering approach to the delivery of aid during the Spanish Civil War. As well as setting up safe havens, they used new techniques such as play therapy to help the sick and traumatised children of war. Clodagh Finn will outline Mary Elmes鈥 work establishing and directing hospitals in Almer铆a, Murcia and Alicante between 1937 and 1939.
Clodagh Finn is a journalist and author of A Time to Risk All, a biography of Mary Elmes (Gill Books). She has a degree in French and archaeology (UCD) and is particularly interested in unearthing the stories of forgotten or overlooked women.
Cultural Responses to Barbarism in Galicia: The Case of Alexandre B贸veda Post 1936 by Mart铆n Veiga.
The quick triumph of the fascist forces at the beginning of the Civil War in Galicia was followed by a very severe repression against all forms of political dissidence in the region. This paper examines a selection of the many cultural responses to the execution on 17th August 1936 of Alexandre B贸veda, a founding member of the Partido Galeguista in 1931 and one of the most notorious Galicianists.
Mart铆n Veiga is a Lecturer in the department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at UCC. He is the director of the Irish Centre for Galician Studies, the co-editor of Galicia 21. Journal of Contemporary Galician Studies and one of the convenors of the research cluster 'Translation and Creative Practice' in CASiLaC, UCC. His research publications are mainly in the areas of modern and contemporary poetry, travel writing in the Hispanic world, creative writing and literary translation.
Places and spaces of the republican exodus of 1939 in Catalonia at the end of the Spanish Civil war by Rafael Jaime.
The lecture aims to trace and present an emotional geography of the republican withdrawal, La Retirada, at the end of the Spanish Civil War in Catalonia during the months of January and February 1939. Its main purpose is to locate existing narratives, memoirs, journals and testimonies carefully in the landscape in which they took place, exposing their emotional bonds with the places and spaces of the withdrawal of the protagonists of the Republican exodus of 1939. In order to create a vision of La Retirada that is sensitive to its mobility and multiplicity, the primary methodology used has been that of interdisciplinary assemblage, juxtaposing images, documents and stories of past and present, in a process redolent of that which Marianne Hirsch calls "post-memory".
Rafael Jaime is a Special Language Demonstrator at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, UCC Cork. He completed a PhD on La Retirada and the end of the Spanish Civil War in Catalunya.
Peadar O鈥橠onnell: An Irishhman in Spain, 1936 by Donal 脫 Drisceoil
The Irish writer and socialist-republican activist Peadar O鈥橠onnell was living in Sitges, Catalonia when the Civil War began in 1936. This paper is centred on his little-known book, Salud!: An Irishman in Spain (1937), which offers fascinating perspectives on the dynamics of revolutionary Spain, as well as on Irish politics and culture in the 1930s.
顿谤&苍产蝉辫;顿辞苍补濒&苍产蝉辫;脱&苍产蝉辫;顿谤颈蝉肠别辞颈濒 is a Senior Lecturer in History at UCC. His publications include the political biography Peadar O鈥橠onnell (2001), published as part of Cork 深夜亚洲福利久久 Press鈥檚 鈥楻adical Irish Lives鈥 series.
The Spanish Civil War. Eighty years later by Eduard Puigvent贸s
It is still common to hear or read in the media about the Spanish Civil War. Hundreds of books are published every year鈥攎emories, unknown aspects of the international politics, the history of trade unions or political parties, new approaches to the victims, bombardments. Furthermore, politicians often discuss over laws that try to do justice on the injustices of the past. There are associations exhorting to exhume the corpses of reprisals, particulars demanding economic compensation or organisations asking for expelled materials in 1939 to be returned, most of the times with the ideological struggle as background and the consequences of a dictatorship of forty years that was founded on the fascist victory in the war. This lecture attempts to give an overview of this situation.
Eduard Puigvent贸s L贸pez (Rub铆, 1984). I completed my BA in History (2007), a Master in Comparative Political and Social History (2008) and my PhD (the biography of the Catalan communist Ramon Mercader, 2013) in the Autonomous 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Barcelona. I started working as a freelancer and external researcher for private and public organisations in 2007, with projects related with the Spanish Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War in Catalonia, biographies and guided tours. I have published twenty academical and dissemination articles, twelve books (among which stands out Ramon Mercader, l'home del piolet. Biografia de l'assass铆 de Trostki), and collaborated in eight collective publications.