Daniel Cardona

Daniel Cardona i Civit (20 August 1890 – 7 March 1943), also known with the pen name of Vibrant or the nickname of l'Irlandès (meaning the Irishman), was a Spanish politician, a prominent figure of 20th-century radical Catalan separatism.

Biography He was born in the Jovellanos Street of Barcelona. On 25 November 1905, at the age of 15, he threw, from the Haberdasher's where he was employed, a bucket of wet sawdust to a group of Spanish soldiers returning from attacking and breaking the headquarters of the ¡Cu-Cut! and the newspaper La Veu de Catalunya. He became councillor of Sant Just Desvern on 1 April 1922. Exiled to France during the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, he was among the plotters of the 1924 "acció del Garraf", a failed attempt of regicide on Alfonso XIII. Established in Perpignan, he collaborated with Francesc Macià. He was a keen defender of armed insurrection against Spain in the 1920s and the 1930s inspired by the Easter Rising in Ireland of 1916. He also won the elections of January 1934 this time with a list named National Front against the Republican Left of Catalonia. After the victory for the Popular Front in the elections of 1936, he returned to Sant Just Desvern and retook office in February 1936. He nominated Jaume Martínez Vendrell as a military commander of the organisation which would become the National Front of Catalonia. The National Front of Catalonia collaborated with the French Resistance, the British Secret Service and the Polish secret services in the context of World War II and represented the main opposition group to the occupation of Catalonia by Fascist Spain in the early period between 1939 and 1947. - see Pistolerismo and Sindicatos Libres for references to the period). Madrona Gelabert died on 1 May 1931 after a long illness.

Works At the age of 12, he already sent articles to junior magazines such as En Patufet. Later he also sent articles to the weekly satirical magazine ¡Cu-Cut!. The National Front of Catalonia he founded passed clandestinely into Spain and then Gibraltar, British, Polish and Belgian aviators as well as Jews of all nationalities.