Aileen O'Brien

Aileen von Vittinghof gennant Schell zu Schellenburg (née O'Brien; January 4, 1913 – October 30, 2000 writer, journalist, She was a Catholic

In 1934 O’Brien moved to Ireland with her family. The organisation was founded with the intention of showing support and raising funds for the Nationalist faction of the Spanish Civil War. However, it quickly became a political organisation opposed to the Irish government of the day. She was the organizing secretary of the ICF

In Spain, O’Brien was the intermediary between the ICF and Cardinal Goma over the distribution of funds raised. She helped to organise medical and other relief units for the rebels. She was involved in the Auxilio Social, Her lectures often attracted large crowds as well as opposition. In Oakland protestors clashed with police outside one of her lectures. but were liberal democrats. She stressed the Nationalists’ achievements in areas such as workers’ rights,

Nationalist memoirist Luis Bolín recounted that while in the United States, O’Brien spoke on the telephone to every Catholic bishop in the country and begged them to request that their parish priests ask all members of their congregations to telegraph in protest to President Roosevelt. In 1950 she married politician and baron in Madrid. The couple later relocated to Castle Kalbeck in Weeze in Germany, the baron's ancestral home. O’Brien died in Germany in 2000, aged 87.