Galician Review

Galicia, lush north‐western region of the Iberian Peninsula, to the north of Portugal, is perhaps best known here for millennial pilgrimages to the supposed burial place of the Apostle, St. James the Great (“Matamoros”), at Compostela. Other Galicians of consequence include Rosalía de Castro, poet of first rank in both Galician and Castilian, born at Santiago de Compostela, and Francisco Franco Bahamonde, destroyer of the Spanish Republic in the War of 1936‐39, born at E1 Ferrol.

Always a “remote”, neglected, underdeveloped province, Galicia had (and still has) great affinity with Ireland, not least a distinct language and a culture scorned...