Ireland’s singing and songwriting legend Christy Moore has sent this message, including a rendition of ‘Viva la Quince Brigada’, to the IBMT’s 2025 Annual General Meeting in Belfast. The AGM was held over the weekend of 3-5 October.

Moore is an IBMT Patron and has done much to spread the story of the Irish volunteers who fought fascism and defended the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War.