On this week's episode, our second year rep Liam and first year rep Isabel invited Barry McLoughlin (University of Vienna) and Emmet O’Connor (Ulster University) to discuss their recently published book In Spanish Trenches: The minds and deeds of the Irish who fought for the republic in the Spanish Civil War. This episode covers the involvement of, and politics behind the Irish fighting in the International Brigades during the battle between Republican and Nationalist Spain leading up to the rise of Franco.