5/25/2017

The Irish Dead: Fighting Fascism in Spain, 1937

The Irish Dead: Fighting Fascism in Spain, 1937

Hugh Bonnar was born in Donegal in 1907, the son of an agricultural labourer. Hugh would not follow in his father’s occupational footsteps and instead found employment away from the land as a plasterer. Bonnar’s left-wing convictions would see him abandon his trade and join many of his fellow countrymen in the fight against fascism in Spain in 1937.
Upon arrival in Spain in January ’37 Bonnar ascended the rank of platoon leader in the famed Lincoln battalion. Unfortunately, Bonnar would meet his end during the Battle of Jarma and fell under a barrage of bullets on the forth day of April 1937.

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