Words spoken by joint Ireland Secretary Luke O'Riordan at Belfast City Hall on 3 October 2025 during the IBMT AGM weekend… It is a great honour to be asked to say a few words among friends and comrades this evening as we gather to remember the bravery of the International…| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Saturday 4 October 2025 at the Unite Office, 26-24 Antrim Road, Belfast BT15 2AA Present: Gerry Abrahams, Mike Arnott, Paddy Bolger, Frank Cammock, David Chanter, John Cobbe, Paul Coles (Treasurer), Kevin Cooper (photographer), Ciaran Crossey, Rowland Davies, Tracy Delaney, Megan Dobney (Secretary), Barrie Eckford, Gary Fabian, Lorene Fabian, Nuria Fraile…| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Words spoken by IBMT Chair Jim Jump in Belfast City Hall on 3 October at the start of the Trust’s Annual General Meeting weekend… The great Spanish poet of the 1930s, Rafael Alberti, said the International Brigades had blood that could sing across frontiers. Where better than in Belfast and in Ireland to celebrate that […]| International Brigade Memorial Trust
See more photos here.[All photos © Kevin Cooper Photoline NUJ unless others attributed] The Cairde Community Choir sing at the opening ceremony in Belfast City Hall A minute's silence was observed at the International Brigade memorial in Writer's Square. Claire Hanna MP, leader of the SDLP, at Writer's Square. She said her great uncle, Richard […]| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Ireland’s singing and songwriting legend Christy Moore has sent this message, including a rendition of ‘Viva la Quince Brigada’, to the IBMT’s 2025 Annual General Meeting in Belfast. The AGM was held over the weekend of 3-5 October. Moore is an IBMT Patron and has done much to spread the story of the Irish volunteers […]| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Several greetings were sent to the IBMT’s Annual General Meeting, held in Belfast on 4 October. As well as those reproduced below, there were messages delivered in person by Nancy Wallach from the New York-based Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, by Ewald Peter Schulz from the German association KFSR (Kämpfer und…| International Brigade Memorial Trust
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Cover: volunteers Nieves Hernández and Maica Gómez tend to the plants in Fuencarral Cemetery in the scorching Madrid sunshine. Issue 3-2025 of the IBMT digital magazine, ¡No Pasaran!, has been emailed to all paid-up members. On the cover, volunteers Nieves Hernández and Maica Gómez tend to the plants in Fuencarral Cemetery in the scorching Madrid sunshine. […]| International Brigade Memorial Trust
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JIM JUMP looks forward to the International Brigade Memorial Trust AGM taking place in Belfast later this week where the spirit of solidarity will be rekindled. The fight against Franco and the rising tide of European fascism united progressive forces from all communities in Belfast. Sectarian and other divisions were cast aside and some 50 […]| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Members of the Scottish Parliament are supporting a motion paying tribute to the anti-fascists in Aberdeen who 90 years ago on 25 September 1935 closed down a meeting organised by the British Union of Fascists in the city’s Music Hall (pictured). Among the leaders of the action was Bob Cooney,…| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Pedro Olivares Martínez, who served on Alicante’s Civic Commission for the Recovery of Historical Memory, writes about Archibald Dickson, the Welshman who captained the last ship taking Spanish Republican refugees to safety as fascist troops entered the city… By the end of March 1939, the Spanish Civil War was about…| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Marking the 40th anniversary of the unveiling of the International Brigade memorial in London’s Jubilee Gardens, IBMT Chair Jim Jump looks back at the drama behind its installation… Linger by the International Brigade memorial on London’s Southbank and you’ll soon notice tourists stopping to find out what this imposing piece…| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Activist and long-standing IBMT member Lisa Croft on her Brigader forebear… My grandfather was Archibald Campbell McCaskill Williams, “AC” for short. He was a lifelong socialist, believing in equality and freedom for the ordinary person, and an International Brigade comrade in Spain, becoming a prisoner during the Battle of Jarama.…| International Brigade Memorial Trust
We need your help to identify a commemoration from the past. If you have any information, please contact us. Do you remember this commemoration at the International Brigade memorial in Jubilee Gardens on London’s Southbank – or can you help pinpoint the exact year it was held? The images are…| International Brigade Memorial Trust
In preparation for the 2025 IBMT Annual General Meeting in Belfast, we revisit this article by the late Manus O'Riordan in which he describes how the more than 200 Irish International Brigaders overcame hostility and sectarian divisions at home to create a united fight against fascism… The sheer viciousness of…| International Brigade Memorial Trust
August talk pulls in the crowds at the Shankill Road Library… On 1 August, a 70-strong audience attended the Féile Lecture 2025, organised by the IBMT-affiliated International Brigade Commemoration Committee (IBCC). The speaker this year was renowned historian Dr Brian Hanley, who spoke on the topic 'Blueshirts, and Blackshirts: fascism…| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Robbie MacDonald looks back at two events from spring 2025…| International Brigade Memorial Trust
The IBMT's 2025 Annual General Meeting will be held in Belfast on Saturday 4 October as part of a weekend of commemorative and social activities from 3-5 October. PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME Friday 3 October 5.30pm: Arrive early at Belfast City Hall, Donegal Square North, Belfast BT1 5GS to see the famous…| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Welcome to an IBMT teaching resource pack. Here you will find a four-lesson unit on the role of women during the Spanish Civil War to complement the other teaching resource on the International Brigades that can also be found on this website under the title ‘Why did so many people volunteer to fight in the Spanish Civil War?’. under the title ‘Why did so many people volunteer to fight in the Spanish Civil War?’.| International Brigade Memorial Trust
IBMT Archivist Alan Lloyd has transcribed a letter from commissar John Gates reporting the death of Humfry Scott (1904-1937) after the Battle of Pozoblanco. The letter, dated 30 April 1937, was addressed to Humfry’s| International Brigade Memorial Trust
An international outcry has forced the Madrid city authorities to freeze plans to build a large rubbish depot on top of the unmarked graves of British and other international volunteers who fought against Franco in| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Words spoken by IBMT Chair Jim Jump at the unveiling of the memorial to the Doncaster International Brigade volunteers on 12 February… First a big thank-you to Councillor David Shaw, former councillor Tosh McDonald and everyone| International Brigade Memorial Trust
Jim Jump on the Fife coalminer, illustrator, poet and International Brigader who was ‘small in stature, large in life’ … Born on 21 August 1912 in Denbeath, Fife, Hugh Smith Sloan was the son of Elizabeth| International Brigade Memorial Trust
