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On 29 November 2011, the Expert Commission for the Future of the Valley of the Fallen, formed by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero under the Historical Memory Law and in charge of giving advice for converting the Valley to a "memory centre that dignifies and rehabilitates the victims of the Civil War and the subsequent Franco regime", [1 ...
Franco was the second person interred in the Santa Cruz basilica. Franco had earlier interred José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of the Falange movement, who was executed by the Republican government in 1936 and was buried by the Francoist government under a modest gravestone on the nave side of the altar. Primo de Rivera died on 20 ...
Dromintee, Northern Ireland May 14, 1977 November 1977 British Army Captain murdered by the IRA during the course of an undercover operation. It is believed that Nairac's body was buried in farmland in Ireland. Gerard Fearon, Thomas Morgan 1978 Frances (or Francis) Rundle Arthur David Rundle South Norwood, Surrey, England October 1978 5 July 1980
Initial forensic work was to begin Monday to try to exhume the bodies of 128 victims of late dictator Francisco Franco’s forces who are among tens of thousands of people buried anonymously in ...
By the time Irish pro-Franco volunteers returned to Ireland, there was no longer widespread support for Franco's cause. Fearghal McGarry writes, 'As it dragged on and atrocities such as the German bombing of Guernica, a village in the Catholic Basque region, became known the idea of Franco leading a religious crusade became more difficult to ...
The exhumation plans for Spain's former dictator have coincided with a verdict on Catalan politicians that has sparked protests—a fracture dating back to the Franco era.
People buried here include: Pádraic Ó Conaire (1882–1928), Irish language author and journalist; Lady Gregory (1852–1932), founding member of the Irish Literary Theatre; William Joyce (1906–1946, known as Lord Haw-Haw), Irish-American Nazi propagandist, executed for treason; Michael Morris, 1st Baron Killanin (1826–1901), lawyer and judge
St. Fintan's Cemetery is located in Sutton, on the south side of Carrickbrack Road in Dublin, Ireland.. The cemetery is laid out in several sections: original with a ruined keeper's cottage and the remnants of old St. Fintan's Church, 1889, 1907 and 1954 extensions, and St. Fintan's Lawn Cemetery divided to St. Marnoc's, St. Assam's, St. Barroc's, St. Nessan's a St. Polan's.