Connolly Column....help

[essex bhoy32]

iv been trying to find out more information on my great uncle Michael May who died in December 1936 at Battle of Lopera. He was a member of Connolly Column and was under the command of Frank Ryan.

Can anyone recommend any other websites?? also would like to know more about frank Ryan and connolly column can anyone recommend any good books??

also has there been any films/documentaries been made on connolly column/international brigade etc??

thanks in advance for any help

TAL

[RisenBelfast]

http://www.geocities.com/irelandscw/index.htm

[conghaileach]

Can anyone recommend any other websites?? also would like to know more about frank Ryan and connolly column can anyone recommend any good books??

"The Connolly Column" by Michael O'Riordan is probably the best source on the Irishmen who fought in the International Brigades. And it was recently republished.

"Irish Politics and the Spanish Civil War" by Fearghal McGarry is a good academic book about both the Connolly Column and O'Duffy's Bandera.

"Frank Ryan: The Search for the Republic" by Seán Cronin is the best biography of Ryan, but it can be hard to come by.

Adrian Hoar's "In Green and Red: The Lives of Frank Ryan" is a more recent book that's good too. But stay away from McGarry's hackjob biography.


also has there been any films/documentaries been made on connolly column/international brigade etc??

There's been very little done about the Connolly Column itself. There was a programme on TG4 based on Eugene Downing's memoirs, called "La Niña Bonita agus An Róisín Dubh".

La Niña Bonita agus An Róisín Dubh - 1/2