Political party in Spain
The Galician League of A Coruña (Liga Gallega in both Spanish and Galician language [ 2] ) was a liberal and Galician regionalist political group founded in 1897 in A Coruña by the participants in the regionalist club A Cova Céltiga (The Celtic Cave ), with its headquarters in the Carré Aldao library; chaired by Manuel Murguía and directed by a committee consisting of Manuel Lugrís Freire , Uxío Carré Aldao and Salvador Golpe.
History
In 1898 the statutes of the League were drafted, entirely in Galician language .[ 3] Waldo Álvarez Insua was elected as the president of the organization in 1899. It was one of the currents in which the Galician Regionalist Association bifurcated. The Galician League of A Coruña was liberal , while the Galician League of Santiago de Compostela was ideologically conservative . The league demanded autonomy for Galiza , conducting in 1897 a signature collection to ask for the same autonomy than Cuba and Puerto Rico .
After 1900 the League had little activity, but survived until 1907. The official newspaper of the organization was the bilingual weekly Revista Gallega, directed by Galo Salinas . Thanks to an initiative of the League, and specially of Galo Salinas , in 1904 a monument to the Martyrs of Carral was built in the town of Carral .
References
Beramendi, X.G. and Núñez Seixas, X.M. (1996): O nacionalismo galego . A Nosa Terra , Vigo
Beramendi, X.G. (2007): De provincia a nación. Historia do galeguismo político . Xerais, Vigo
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