of Patriot Women"). During this visit, he became good friends with Eli Gallastegi and other figures in the pro-independence faction Aberri faction of the Basque Nationalist Party. Martin returned to Ireland in April 1922, shortly before the outbreak of the Irish Civil War. Martin himself claims to have fought with the IRA against the Irish Free State, though later Irish intelligence assessed this claim to be false, believing that he was running the family grocery shop in Kilbeggan for the duration of the war. Martin left Ireland in 1924, returning to the Basque Country at some point late in the year. In November 1924 he was apparently arrested by Spanish police alongside some Basque nationalists during a mendigoxale (mountaineering) outing at which he spoke on the Irish struggle for freedom. During the military dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923-1930), Basque nationalism was heavily persecuted, pressuring Martin and many of his Basque comrades to leave for France. Ambrose Martin next appeared in Paris, lodging with a band of similarly-exiled Catalan nationalists. During this time, he became affiliated with the Catalan nationalist party Estat Català, led by Francesc Macià. He also came into contact with Leopold Kerney, Ireland's pioneering diplomat in France at the time. As his associates in Estat Català planned a military operation to , Ambrose Martin supplied them with Irish republican propaganda and writings on IRA tactics. Martin also assisted with a Basque plan to stage an uprising in coordination with that of Estat Català. On one occasion, Martin had Leopold Kerney forward a request to Dublin for IRA veterans to help "polish furniture" in the Basque Country. During this period, Martin was a key node connecting important figures in the Irish republican movement with their Basque and Catalan nationalist counterparts, who often consciously followed the Irish example. Martin appears to have abandoned the rebellion plot in late 1925 or early 1926, working temporarily in the home of an aristocratic family in Paris. The Catalan plot was eventually foiled by French police, who had been keeping close tabs on the radical exiles from Spain. Martin returned to Argentina in 1927. Return to Ireland Exiled in Argentina again, Ambrose Martin returned to Suipacha where he opened a business called the "Basque-Irish Café" catering to the local Basque and Irish diasporas. In 1932, Éamon de Valera's Fianna Fáil party won the Irish election. With many old anti-Treatyites rehabilitated, Martin made