Political Lives #3 Castelao

Papers / 11.3.19
Political Lives #3 Castelao

POLITICAL LIVES is a series of biographies of remarkable politicians, scholars and activists that helped shape our societies throughout the XX century.

 

The third issue of the collection is devoted to Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, a Galician patriot, political democrat, and activist in favour of freedom of his people, in the first half of the twentieth century who was exiled in America after the fascist coup in Spain back in the spring of 1939.

Trained as a physician, his vocation and passion led him to become a caricaturist, illustrator, visual artist, journalist, writer, dramatist… but first and foremost a man that was committed to the Galician movement during the II Spanish Republic and in exile, until his passing in 1950.

A great speaker and organiser who —together with other figures such as Alexandre Bóveda, during republican times, or Antón Alonso Ríos, during their exile— united around himself thousands of Galicians in favour of a Free Galicia.

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This paper is an initiative of Coppieters Foundation in cooperation with Fundació Josep Irla.

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This paper is financially supported by the European Parliament. The European Parliament is not liable for the content of the conference or the opinions of the authors.

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