Tag archive for Civil War (RSS)

Wellington vs Glasgow Rangers’ International Brigadiers, and the origins of “No pasarán” and “No surrender”

Posted: June 14th 2009 21:17. Last modified: June 15th 2009 08:52

Nominations for the noblest British fighter in a Spanish war, and speculative revisions of the history of two idiot idioms.

Tags: Apprentice Boys, Arthur Dooley, Bible, Catholics, Civil War, communism, Derry, Dolores Ibarruri, France, Glasgow, Glasgow Rangers, Guardian, Guerra Civil, International Brigades, La Pasionaria, Londonderry, nationalism, Ne passeront pas, nuns, Pétain, Peninsula War, Protestants, Scotland, sectarianism, Spain, Verdun, Wellington, WWI
Categories: Les bourgeois

The green of the louse/Lo verde del piojo

Posted: May 21st 2009 11:46. Last modified: May 21st 2009 11:48

An etymological hop from kite-flying with Juan Marsé back to Concha Piquer’s greatest hit.

Tags: Últimas tardes con Teresa, Barcelona, Carmel, Civil War, Concha Piquer, coplas, etymology, Guerra Civil, Guinardó, Isabel Pantoja, Juan Marsé, Monte Carmelo, novels, Park Güell, Rocío Jurado, translation, Turó de la Rovira, walking
Categories: Acute diseases, Cities, Fields, landmarks, land measures, Les bourgeois, Liberals & locals, Music, Poets

Aub on burning Barcelona

Posted: August 6th 2005 23:18. Last modified: June 12th 2009 19:29

Seeing hordes of plump Barcelonans engaged in public Tai-chi–imagine Jackie Chan on lard–and reading of the dreadful internal purges inflicted by Johannes Itten–who seems to have believed himself a Tibetan monk–on Bauhaus students before the parties started, I remembered that I was going to translate a bit more Aub’s Campo cerrado. So here, at top [...]

Tags: 1936, Barcelona, Civil War, Companys, Ferrer y Guardia, Guerra Civil, Max Aub, PSUC, Semana Trágica
Categories: Liberals & locals

Hirsute pursuit

Posted: March 19th 2005 21:30. Last modified: March 15th 2009 20:13

The Popular Front’s Patent Baldness Remedy.

Tags: Barcelona, Civil War, communism, hairdressing, Lenin, marx, Stalin
Categories: Liberals & locals

El Barça, Franco’s favourite team?

Posted: January 2nd 2005 16:04. Last modified: May 21st 2009 21:48

There is no statistical evidence for claims that the Franco government worked for Real Madrid and against Barça.

Tags: Alfredo Di Stéfano, Atlético de Madrid, Barça, Barcelona, Chamartín, Civil War, corruption, football, Franco, Guerra Civil, Jimmy Burns, Juan Samaranch, Madrid, Millán Astray, Real Madrid, Santiago Bernabéu, Unamuno
Categories: Ball-playing, Les bourgeois, Liberals & locals

My 5% bookstore - new stuff

Spanish history

EL DISCURSO BOLCHEVIQUE: EL PARTI COMMUNISTE FRANÇAIS Y LA SEGUND A REPUBLICA ESPAÑOLA (1931-1936)
CEAMANOS LLORENS, ROBERTO
20.00€
LA HUELLA MORISCA: EL AL ANDALUS QUE LLEVAMOS DENTRO
RODRIGUEZ RAMOS, ANTONIO MANUEL
19.00€
CASTILLA Y EL MUNDO FEUDAL (3 TOMOS): HOMENAJE AL PROFESOR JULIO VALDEON
VAL VALDIVIESO, Mª ISABEL DELMARTINEZ SOPENA, PASCUAL
90.00€

Modern Spanish fiction

EL OFICINISTA (PREMIO BIBLIOTECA BREVE 2010)
SACCOMANO, GUILLERMO
18.00€
LA ENMILAGRADA
GOMEZ-ARCOS, AGUSTIN
18.95€
DIAS DE HIELO Y FUEGO
ORDOÑEZ, ROCIO
18.00€

Spanish classics

TRAGEDIA DE NUMANCIA
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
33.00€
LIFE IS A DREAM / LA VIDA ES SUEÑO (ED. BILINGÜE INGLES-ESPAÑOL)
CALDERON DE LA BARCA, PEDRO
16.64€
INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA (FACSIMIL) ESTUCHE 2 VOL.
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
39.90€

On this day

Barcelona

March 22 1460 El príncipe de Viana alcanza por primera vez el perdon de su padre, y se viene de Mallorca á Barcelona.
March 22 1848
En obsequio del beato José Oriol, cuyo fiesta se celebra mañana en la parroquia de Ntra. Sra. del Pino, se cantan en la misma iglesia solemnes maitines á las 4 y media de la tarde de hoy.

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

22 de març de 1919 Alta cultura. Les coses, és clar, haurien pogut ésser diferents… En acabar el batxillerat, la meva intenció no fou pas d’estudiar per advocat. M’hauria agradat més d’estudiar química, i per tal de servir el que jo creia que era la meva vocació, vaig matricular-me al preparatori de Ciències. Matricular-se! Prenguin nota de la parauleta! El [...]