International Brigade Memorial Trust
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[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 McAleenan, from Banbridge, County Down, who spent a year in the British Battalion in Spain and was a battalion observer, was a source of inspiration for her family. Pictured left are IBMT Secretary Megan Dobney and (partly hidden) IBMT Chair Jim Jump.
From left, Luke, Jess and Neil O'Riordan, grandchildren of Cork-born Brigader Michael O'Riordan, next to the stained-glass window dedicated to the International Brigades in Belfast City Hall. Luke O'Riordan is the joint IBMT Ireland Secretary with Lynda Walker.
The IBMT merchandise stall was busy all weekend.
Brigader family members, international guests and officers of the Belfast-based International Brigade Commemoration Committee gather for a group photo at City Hall.
Spain's Honorary Vice Consul in Belfast, José Andrés Lázaro Villanueva, after laying a wreath at the Writer's Square memorial.
Gerry Murphy, Assistant General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, speaking in City Hall.
Proudly holding the Connolly Column Banner at Writer's Square is Brenda O'Riordan, daughter of Brigader Michael O'Riordan. Brenda sang a song in Gaelic at the opening ceremony.
A visit to the Straney family grave in Belfast's Milltown Cemetery, on which is inscribed a dedication to Jim Straney, who was killed at Gandesa during the Battle of the Ebro in the summer of 1938. [Photo; Jim Jump]
In the Dockers' Club in Belfast's Sailortown, where there was a social with music on Saturday evening for AGM attendees and supporters. [Photo; Jim Jump]
Sisters Gerry Abrahams (left) and Anne O'Hara speak about their father, Gerry Doran, from Antrim, who was repatriated from Spain after being wounded at Lopera in December 1936.
Liz Shaw, daughter of Joe Boyd, from Cookstown, County Tyrone, who was a member of the Scottish Ambulance Unit in Spain.
Speakers, clockwise from top left: Alan Lloyd (IBMT Archivist), Mike Arnott (IBMT Scotland Secretary), Helen Oclee-Brown (IBMT Executive Officer) and Paul Coles (IBMT Treasurer).
