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Feb 25, 2024 · Dive into the riveting saga of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, a figure whose legacy continues to ignite discussions across the globe. From his early days in Argentin...
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Jun 29, 2023 · 🔥 In today's episode, we explore the extraordinary journey of one of the 20th century's most iconic revolutionaries – Che Guevara as we uncover the enigmat...
- Ernesto Guevara, Man and Myth
- Irish Reaction to The Cuban Revolution
- Maureen O’Hara and ‘Che’
- Guevara’s Brief Visits to Ireland
- After Che’s Death
- ‘Romanticism of The Guerrilla’
- Galway Monument
- Stamp
- Conclusion
- References
Guevara was the eldest of five children in a middle-class family who had progressive leanings. His father, Ernesto Guevara Lynch had met his mother, Celia de la Serna in 1927. Both branches of the family were well-to-do, but had come down in the world by the time the first born had arrived. Ernesto Guevara led a life of semi-comfort, although dogge...
It begs the question, however, at what point did Ireland become aware of Guevara’s ‘Irishness’? Certainly, in the early days, when the Cuban revolution made world headlines, there was no clue. How could there have been? Press agency reports which prominent Irish newspapers such as the Irish Independentreproduced, singled out Guevara as a figure of ...
While the general Irish public, if they were interested, only saw glimpses of this ‘skillful and dangerous’ communist revolutionary, one of Ireland’s favourite stars was afforded a view of the human being behind the press persona. Internationally renowned Irish actress, Maureen O’Hara, fondly recalled her experience of the revolutionary leader in h...
Almost five years later, when Guevara’s transatlantic flight was diverted to Dublin, the Irish Press, contrary to what O’Hara would later write about grandmother Lynch, quoted Che was stating he knew little of his own grandmother, only presuming she was of Irish descent due to her surname. Perhaps Guevara, diverted on a long-haul flight was in litt...
The ‘local angle’ on Guevara carried through in the wake of his 1967 execution, when numerous Irish newspapers, breaking the news, highlighted the deceased revolutionary’s Irish heritage. A year later, however, a hugely interesting Irish link was made by the Kerrymannewspaper. In an article by Tony Meade, little is held back in a piece on Irish War...
Nevertheless, as the Northern conflict grew in ferocity in the 1970s and 1980s, Guevara, despite having some roots in western Ireland, became a northern symbol in Irish papers, with any sense of his family’s ‘Irishness’ becoming harder to find. That same month, in the Evening Heraldan article on ‘Ideas of the Men of Violence’, Guevara and others we...
Battles around the name and legacy of Guevara were fought sporadically on a variety of fronts. However, issues of Guevara and Irishness really came to the fore in the 2010s when proposals were raised to commemorate him and his links to Ireland. In 2012 a proposal for a permanent memorial in his ‘ancestral’ Galway was announced and in 2017 the offic...
In 2017 passions were aroused yet again with the announcement that An Posthad commissioned a commemorative postage stamp to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Guevara’s killing in Bolivia. The opposition which was, for the most part, social media-driven was nonetheless picked up by traditional media outlets who questioned the Argentinean’s suitabilit...
Connections between Che Guevara and Ireland have mainly been one way. Certainly, there is not much evidence to suggest that Che prized his Irish heritage in the way his father did. In fact, as Che’s letter to his father from Limerick in the 1960s stated that he was in the land of ‘your ancestors’, not ‘our’. On the Irish side, however, it is much m...
Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life(London, 1997), p. 4. Che Guevara, Guerrilla Warfare(London, 1998), p. i. Michael E. Jones, “Che and Korda: A Convoluted and Contentious Cuban Copyright Case’, in Atlantic Law Journal, vol.15, (2013), pp 145-170. Bill Rolston, ‘The War of the Walls: political murals in Northern Ireland’ in Museum I...
Mar 17, 2019 · The Lynch family crest, flanked by Che Guevara (left), whose father was a Lynch, at Shannon Airport, and director David Lynch (right). The name Lynch, which is ranked among the 100 most common names in Ireland, originates with several different clans, and is most frequently traced back to the anglicization of the old Irish name Ó Loinsigh, and the less-numerous Norman de Lench family.
Dec 25, 2017 · Che’s father, who’s full name is Ernesto Guevara Lynch, was proud of his Irish roots and the story of how his family built a business in Argentina after fleeing Ireland during Cromwell’s era ...
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Che Guevara Timeline 1928-1967. Born – 14th June 1928. Died – 9th October 1967 (executed) Father – Ernesto Guevara Lynch. Mother – Celia de la Serna y Llosa. Spouses – m. 1955, div 1959 – Hilda Gadea (1925 – 1974); m. 1959 – Aleida March (b. 1936)
