The Irish unit that fought for Franco in 1936-37. By John Dorney In late 1936, a young unemployed Dubliner, Seamus MacKee, was told that ‘General [Eoin] O’Duffy was looking for volunteers to go to Spain to fight for the Catholic faith against the Reds who were murdering priests and raping … Continue reading ‘God’s Battle’: O’Duffy’s Irish Brigade in the Spanish Civil War