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Apr 22, 2024 · 24 She is the woman sometimes referred to as Ché Guevara’s Irish granny. ... died in 1995, aged 39. Her son, Canek Sanchez Guevara, who died aged 41 in 2015, stands out from the rest of the ...
- In Partnership With
- 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 21, 2002 · It was from this marriage that Che's grandmother, Ana Lynch y Ortiz, was descended. She married Roberto Guevara Castro, and their eldest son was Ernesto Guevara Lynch, who was born in 1900.
Che Guevara's grandmother, Ana, was a descendant of Patrick Lynch, who was born in Lydacan, Galway in 1715. Che's father, Ernesto Guevara Lynch, said in a 1969 interview: "The first thing to note is that in my son's veins flowed the blood of the Irish rebels. Che inherited some of the features of our restless ancestors.
Oct 9, 2017 · Ciarán D'Arcy. Mon Oct 09 2017 - 11:41. The father of Che Guevara embraced his Gaelic heritage, especially the rebellious nature of the Irish and their fondness for partying, according to the ...
Jul 2, 2023 · Guevara’s Irish Roots. Che Guevara, pre-beard, aged 22 years old. Patrick Lynch’s eldest son, Justo Pastor Lynch, followed in his father’s footsteps as a royal representative and a captain, and he also became a customs official. Patrick, or Patricio, Lynch was Patrick Lynch’s grandson who set up a major shipping company in Argentina.
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Nov 13, 2023 · Wounded, Guevara was captured and then shot dead. Two years later, in 1969, Guevara’s father gave an interview where he said: “The first thing to note is that in my son’s veins flowed the blood of the Irish rebels, the Spanish conquistadors and the Argentinean patriots. Evidently Che inherited some of the features of our restless ancestors.
