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Apr 22, 2024 · There is no other record of Guevara’s visit to Ireland at this time, but over the years Fitzpatrick has remained certain. After Guevara’s death Jim Fitzpatrick created his iconic poster from a ...
- 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...
Aug 19, 2012 · Che Guevara was at the height of his powers when he visited Ireland, in 1965, but the sheen of revolutionary celebrity hid a personal crisis that would shortly have a fatal outcome.
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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 ...
Jul 2, 2023 · Che Guevara and Ireland Today. From Sept. 30 to Oct 2, 2011, Kilkee celebrated the 50th anniversary of Che Guevara in Ireland with the Che do Bheatha festival. The Cuban ambassador to Ireland, Teresita Trujillo, opened the festival. Attendees watched the film “Motorcycle Diaries” while listening to Cuban bands and an Irish salsa act. People ...
Nov 13, 2023 · Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary with an Irish heritage. Che Guevara was a communist revolutionary and central figure in the Cuban Revolution. His Irish heritage was a huge part of his identity and it is said "the blood of Irish rebels flowed in his veins". Guevara, born Ernesto Guevara, was a descendent of Co Galway ...
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Nov 4, 2021 · Argentine born Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara on a short visit to Dublin.Argentine born Major Ernesto Che Guevara, and ‘Comandante’ of the Cuban Revolution,...
