[Leica] IMG: Che O'Guevara - Kilkee

[Douglas Barry]

With the fiftieth anniversary of the feted, and fated, revolutionary 
hero (and possible mass murderer) Che Guevara being celebrated (or 
reviled) in Cuba and elsewhere, I was surprised to see that he had 
stayed in Kilkee when his Aeroflot Tupolev had been grounded in Shannon 
Airport en route to Moscow for his revolutionary lessons in the early 60s.

Che Guevara stayed here in Kilkee, Co. Clare.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Kilkee/Kilkee+2017+Che+Wall.jpg.html

Fuji X100S. See LARGE

Interestingly enough, an acquaintance of mine Jim Fitzpatrick did a 
design featuring a black and white image of Che on a red background 
which wound up emblazoned on many a teenager's t-shirt in the late 60s 
and 70s. The design was based on Korda's iconic photograph.

The Irish Post Office has just issued a stamp to commemorate it. 
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/famous-che-guevara-image-features-on-new-an-post-stamp-1.3248276

Jim - a fan of the revolution - was working in a summer job behind a bar 
in Kilkee when Che and his minders came in. He recognised the stranger 
as Che, and they had a chat as you do here in Ireland. After the death 
of Che in Bolivia, Jim did the design to remember him. Ironically, Che 
had Irish antecedents by the name of Lynch so he was sort of returning 
home.

Douglas
who is a running dog of capitalism himself