La Pasionaria Greetings Card (A6 Sized)

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La Pasionaria Greetings Card (A6 Size)

A favourite of many people, this statue, on Clyde Street in Glasgow, is a memorial to the 2,100 British volunteers who fought for the Republican cause against Franco’s fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939. Of these, 534 died, including 65 from Glasgow. The statue was created by Arthur Dooley and was erected in 1979. It features Dolores Ibarruri, known as La Pasionaria (the Passionflower), an activist renowned for her passionate speeches. The plinth for the statue (not shown in this photo) features Ibarruri’s slogan ‘It’d better to die on your feet than live forever on your knees’. This is one of only three statues of real, non-royal women in Glasgow, and the only non-Scottish one. Ibarruir was born in 1895 and died in 1989, some ten years after this statue was created.

The card is A6 in size (14.8cm by 10.5cm) and is blank inside so you can add your own message, and it comes with its own white envelope.

This card is also available as a pack pf six Glasgow Icon greetings cards.

This photograph is also available as as a mounted print.