Blueshirts - Wikipedia
The Army Comrades Association (ACA), later the National Guard, then Young Ireland [a] and finally League of Youth, but best known by the nickname the Blueshirts (Irish: Na Léinte …
The Blueshirts – fascism in Ireland? - The Irish Story
May 18, 2012 · Following Cumann na nGaedheal’s defeat in the 1933 election a section of the Pro-Treatyites formed the Army Comrades Association, later christened the Blueshirts – …
WHO & WHAT WERE THE IRISH BLUESHIRTS?
Aug 6, 2019 · In reality, the Irish Blueshirt movement was multifaceted; it meant different things to different members. Interwar Europe was a hive of political activity with a number of shirted …
Blueshirt | Irish Revolution, Civil War & Fascism | Britannica
Blueshirt, popular name for a member of the Army Comrades Association (ACA), who wore blue shirts in imitation of the European fascist movements that had adopted coloured shirts as their …
Showing Blueshirts in their true colours – The Irish Times
Jan 12, 2001 · Ireland has been seen as being no exception to this general pattern: between 1932 and 1936 the Blueshirt movement, at its height having 50,000 members, appeared to parallel …
RTÉ’s ‘Patriots to a Man’, the Blueshirts & their times
Irish historians have always been more circumspect about the meaning of Blueshirtism saw the Blue shirt movement as the last gasp of civil war politics.
The Blueshirts in the Irish Free State, 1932–1935: the nature of ...
The popular historical mind in Ireland has firmly identified the Blueshirts as the embodiment of the Free State's experiment with fascism.
shirts in Ireland today, or (more likely) because the records have been destroyed or lost. In terms of administration, the Blueshirts were highly organised. Every. 1 Maurice Manning, The …
Documentary On One - O'Duffys Men - RTÉ
Maurice Manning traces the history of the Blueshirts in Ireland, an organisation which borrowed the ethos of the Blackshirts in Italy.
Without the Blueshirts, there would have been no Fine Gael
Nov 7, 2020 · The Blueshirts may have dominated the political scene for about two years, and they had been a critical part of the merger that created Fine Gael, temporarily overshadowing …