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An enigma: Walter Starkie (1894-1976)

July 30, 2024

Not a lot is known about Walter Starkie, the Irish Hispanist, musician, travel writer, who, as the first director of the British Council in Madrid (1940-1976), fostered and preserved relationships between Spain and England at a critical time in the Second World War and at the same time created the “much mythologised subject” of himself. […]

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An enigma: Walter Starkie (1894-1976)

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