Irmandades da Fala
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The Irmandades da Fala was a Galician nationalist
organization active between 1916 and 1936.
It was the first political organization of Galicia that only used the Galician language
.
, called for the protection of the Galician language
in 1915. On January 5, 1916, Antón Vilar Ponte
started a campaign for the establishment of a League of Friends of the Galician Language in the newspaper La Voz de Galicia
and in March 1916 he published Galician Nationalism (Notes for a Book): Our Regional Affirmation, where he supported the protection, dignification and use of the Galician language.
The proposal was supported by leaders of different ideological persuasions. The most important of these were Antón Losada Diéguez and the Traditionalists
and the Liberal Democrats.
, they established their program:
Galician nationalism
Galician nationalism is a political movement arguing for the recognition of Galicia as a nation. The political movement referred to as modern Galician nationalism was born at the beginning of the twentieth century from the idea of Galicianism.- Ideology :...
organization active between 1916 and 1936.
It was the first political organization of Galicia that only used the Galician language
Galician language
Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...
.
Origin
Aurelio Ribalta, a Galician writer living in MadridMadrid
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, called for the protection of the Galician language
Galician language
Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...
in 1915. On January 5, 1916, Antón Vilar Ponte
Antón Vilar Ponte
Antón Vilar Ponte was born in Viveiro in 1881 and died in A Coruña in 1936. He was one of the most important galicianists before the civil war. As a journalist he worked in A Nosa Terra, Nós, La Voz de Galicia, El Pueblo Gallego, and El Noroste....
started a campaign for the establishment of a League of Friends of the Galician Language in the newspaper La Voz de Galicia
La Voz de Galicia
La Voz de Galicia is a Spanish daily newspaper owned by the Corporación Voz de Galicia. La Voz is the most sold newspaper in Galicia and the sixth of Spain...
and in March 1916 he published Galician Nationalism (Notes for a Book): Our Regional Affirmation, where he supported the protection, dignification and use of the Galician language.
The proposal was supported by leaders of different ideological persuasions. The most important of these were Antón Losada Diéguez and the Traditionalists
Carlism
Carlism is a traditionalist and legitimist political movement in Spain seeking the establishment of a separate line of the Bourbon family on the Spanish throne. This line descended from Infante Carlos, Count of Molina , and was founded due to dispute over the succession laws and widespread...
and the Liberal Democrats.
Political program
In the congress of November 1918 in the city of LugoLugo
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, they established their program:
- Primary objectives:
- Complete autonomy for Galicia.
- Municipal autonomy.
- Entry of Galicia into the League of NationsLeague of NationsThe League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace...
. - Federal union with PortugalPortugalPortugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
.
- Objectives for Galicia:
- The legislative power to be in a Galician Parliament, elected by the people.
- The judicial power to always be exercised by the Galician people.
- Galicia to have its own tributary laws, without the intervention of central government.
- Galician and Spanish to be the official languages in Galicia.
- Equal rights for women and men.
- Suppression of the Provincial Deputations.