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Podcast: Irish History Podcast
Episode: The Irish Fascist Partisan (Partisans #2)
Description: This is the second episode in the series Partisans - Irish Stories from the Spanish Civil War. In this podcast we meet our first partisan Aileen O'Brien, a 22 year old Irish American who moved to Ireland in 1935. O'Brien was always a mysterious figure - her contemporaries were never quite sure what to make of her. Some considered her a fascist, others thought her a naive catholic while intelligence agenices suspected she may have been a covert arms dealer. Unsurprisingly not long after she arrived in Ireland Aileen's activities attracted the attention of the Irish police and ev...