In Popular Culture
- Irish singer Christy Moore's song Viva La Quinta Brigada is in large part a tribute to Frank Ryan and his efforts in the Spanish Civil War.
- Frank Ryan gets a mention in the Pogues song "The Sick Bed of Cúchulainn", on their 1985 Album "Rum Sodomy & the Lash". The lines reference Ryan's Irishness, Internationalism and anti-Fascism. "Frank Ryan bought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid... and you decked some fucking blackshirt who was cursing all the Yids."
- The character Liam Devlin in the Jack Higgins 1975 thriller The Eagle has Landed seems to be based on Frank Ryan. Higgins's Devlin, like Ryan, is an IRA man who has fought on the Republican side in Spain, was captured and was afterwards passed on to the Germans - but in the book he is then recruited to join a (fictional) commando raid into England, aimed at capturing Winston Churchill.
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