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Graduates of Madrid of the Alternative Public School in 1974. Following the restoration of democracy in Spain, O'Malley worked to establish and develop the Madrid Education Union and the State Federation of the Workers' Commissions. She continued to remain involved in feminist and radical politics, regularly taking part in street protests over impositions imposed on women by the
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She later became a member of the staff at the
British School. Several of O'Malley's pupils were children of leading Franco government members, and she adopted dual Irish and Spanish nationality. She was a contributor to the passing and the approval of the General Assembly of the College of Doctors
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noted the aspect of O'Malley being "amicable, intellectually springy, intoxicatingly companionable
Irishwoman, capable of banter and laughter but equally capable of passionate argument and advocacy." Manus O’Riordan said of her, "Pamela O’Malley’s own undying voice is the exuberant voice of the
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in 1952. They did not have any children, and she did not remarry following Crist's death in 1964. On 12 February 2006, O'Malley died suddenly from a stroke in Madrid. A memorial service was held for her at the Irish Labour
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promoting racial harmony between different races of children and constructing schools and undertaking other projects in the countries in the Third World. She was also a recipient of the
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O'Malley was an avid bullring fan and was described as having "an encyclopaedic knowledge of the history and art of bullfighting." She was married the
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democratic Spain of today that she herself fought so courageously to bring about by peaceful methods of struggle." In
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