Enda Kenny, Blueshirt

[Jackass] wrote: »

Your knowledge of Irish history is dubious at best..

The Irish National Guard (Nicknamed the Blue Shirts) were a security organisation to protect Pro-Treaty supporters from attack and murder, similar to the fate of Michael
Collins.

Public speakers were often attacked by anti-treaty supporters, so the blue shirts would form a security ring to combat the attacks and allow people to speak in public.

They were likend with Musolinis Black Shirt based solely on their uniform than on policies.

Some members of the National Guard fought in the Spanish Civil war as it was a war to defeat communism.

Somebody has been reading wikipedia. Confirmed by your carbon-copy use of the word 'dubious' in your opening line. Pick up a book on the actions of the blueshirts, and their public demonstrations, intimidation of the public, disorderly behaviour, rampant anti-semitism and downright odious views. They were absolutely fascists who's sympathies lay with other European fascist movements. Eoin O'Duffy was a slimeball of the highest order, who - along with many of his other blueshirt 'comrades', went to Spain in an attempt to uphold a fascist dictatorship.

Don't come on here accusing people of having a 'dubious' command of Irish history, when it's clear you're the one who hasn't read a single shred of paper about the history and actions of the blueshirts, outside a quick glance at the wikipedia entry for it.