Such a pity Michael Collins was assassinated. He and O’Duffy fought in the was of Independent while cute Dev stayed safe in the USA. Dev alway changed his views when it suited him and History has shown him in his true devious colours. Great video.

Exceptional work. This is history of which more people should be aware.

Excellent reporting James. I love these capsules of Modern Irish History.

Good heavens, what a fascinating and complicated insight into pre-war Irish politics.

@Freyja_M4106

2 жыл бұрын

Well you know how it goes luv "Iffin yer not confused, ye don't know what's goin on."

@bellascott6478

2 жыл бұрын

I’d need to watch that over again to fully understand it lol

@paulbyrne2613

2 жыл бұрын

Pre war? Should be thought in schools

@bellascott6478

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulbyrne2613 is it not taught in Irish schools?

@DaraSheahan

2 жыл бұрын

@@bellascott6478 This was taught in school in the 90s for sure. That said, this video went into more detail than I remember learning in school.

the Blueshirts would be quite upset at who leads Fianna Gael these days....

@f.b508

3 жыл бұрын

Who cares what they think. They we’re Facists

@MonaLisa-lu8zi

3 жыл бұрын

👳‍♀️

@Kitiwake

3 жыл бұрын

They'd be shocked...lol

@Minime163

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder what dev would think of what's leading fianna faul these days or destroying it more like.

@77funtomas

3 жыл бұрын

@@f.b508 Were..?

Another excellent episode. I look forward to many more.

@TheIrishNationLives

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for checking it out

It's such an interesting period in Irish history, Kevin O'Higgins interests me as a great 'what if ?' in this period, would things have been different if he had lived to become leader of Cumann na nGaedheal ? My mothers family were anti-treaty during the civil war, and my father's family were pro-treaty I feel mainly because Kevin O'Higgins was a friend my of great-grandfather's at the time, and I think the treaty split did come down, for some, to the personal loyalties of the women and men of the Civil War, and post Civil War period. Great history thank you, very thought provoking, particularly when thinking about some aspects of current Irish politics.

One thing this episode proves, is that the free state politicians from then til now are embarrassingly useless and inept at running a country

@cushyglen4264

2 жыл бұрын

That’s because the British were still running the place & still are.

@johnoriordan7419

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah your bang on, I think this crowd are more courupt I'd say

@proudinfidel2194

2 жыл бұрын

I think politicians are in the business of creating problems and then coming up with solutions

@NikCan66

Жыл бұрын

Lolalty to the Brits,EU still there and NOT Ireland

@johnhughes4170

9 ай бұрын

It's obvious the Republic that was fought for was never delivered. What was basically delivered was a conservative right wing state run by two conservative right wing party's Fine Gael and Fianna Fail dictated to by a right wing religion with a media that's but a extension of the British media. A so called Republic for the few not for the majority.

This is excellent. Thank you for the research and presentation. Subscribed.

Both fianna fail and fine gale have become mirror images of each other and both parties are as corrupt as corrupt can possibly be.

@andrewbarry6702

11 ай бұрын

Now they've foreign auxiliaries and hordes of undocumented black and tans

Great video, keep them up, thanks man

@TheIrishNationLives

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much for checking it out!

Obair mhaith arís. Concise and informative.

@TheIrishNationLives

4 жыл бұрын

Go raibh maith agat! I'm glad you found it concise, I was afraid it was drifting off in parts.

Very interesting. I had no idea of the power wielded by the blue shirts.

@Kodakcompactdisc

3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately they still wield it today

@CM-eg3gl

2 жыл бұрын

It was overstated imho

@user-ys5yv2nz6w

2 жыл бұрын

@Digger Gardi He signed the condolence as a matter of neutrality. He would've done the same for Stalin, De Gualle or Churchill.

@johnoriordan7419

2 жыл бұрын

@Digger Gardi you do know that Churchill wanted to murder all Irish men, who wanted to be free in their own country

@johnoriordan7419

2 жыл бұрын

A right shower a fucks, still are

Fascinating, the rich history that Ireland has during the early years as an independent nation. Political landscape never simple.

Amazing video thank you.

Bravo. Quality presentation.

Excellent video. Very informative 🇮🇪

Thank you

The funniest part is that you can’t even tell they are blueshirts from the images provided because they are in black and white. 📽 Its very different with the Mosley blackshirts. Great video btw, this is the first of yours I have watched and I’m already loving this channel to bits! I’ll be sure to watch another after this, keep up the good work pal!!! 😍🇮🇪

Thanks i need to learn more about this.

Thank you for making and sharing the above. Wow.

I love learning Irish history. I feel like there's a gap in Irish history from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Troubles. Thanks for covering that, honestly I've never heard of any of this before. I feel a little bit smarter today

@rorygrant3822

9 ай бұрын

A hammer was too good 4 him

@rorygrant3822

9 ай бұрын

O Duffy was fascists

Keep up the good work on your channel 👏🏽 Maith thú

Great video--A story from my Irish relatives -During WW2 a car drove up to the house and two local Blueshirts came out and gave my relative,not a Blueshirt official member, a Blue Shirt uniform (apparently tailored since he was 6'6" ) and told him if the Germans invaded to show up at the law courts as usual with his private purchase revolver and the uniform, so the locals would still remain in control of a functioning court system for local matters.Wish I had the uniform -- they are collectors items now.

@georgetreepwood1119

3 жыл бұрын

@@goebbledup1835 Thank you-- If you ever get a chance to buy the uniform--I would say snap it up -there is a a big market for smaller political party uniforms..One day I will tell you about the Finnish spy

@f.b508

3 жыл бұрын

@@goebbledup1835 O Duffy was a Facist

@jpgduff

3 жыл бұрын

@@goebbledup1835 What, so you're a facist in training? Delete your previous comment and have a word with yourself so.

@jpgduff

3 жыл бұрын

@@goebbledup1835 learning not to say 'Hail O'Duffy' shouldn't be hard dude. Wtf?

@jpgduff

3 жыл бұрын

@@goebbledup1835 You are called Goebelledup. I'm afraid you're just as I said. O'Duffy was a facist. He doesn't deserve respect. Mussolini was an 'interesting' character. He still spawned a disgusting ideology. You're a trash human being if you can't see why what you said is wrong. But given your name, I doubt you care. Be a better person. 'Hail O'Duffy' just furthers the image of you as a facist.

Very interesting!

Excellent video in what seems like an excellent series.

Very interesting video thank you

I knew this wasn't going to be an easy episode to make and it most certainly wasn't! The lack of accounts of the Army Comrades Association and the image of the Blueshirts in popular knowledge of the time were just some of the difficulties in putting this together. Whether you think they deserve it or not I hope that I have been able to handle the topic in a fair and unbiased manner. A lot of things had to be left out (like the fact W.B. Yeats wrote marching songs for the Blueshirts), what do you think should have been included that wasn't?

@dafteverton7218

4 жыл бұрын

Oduffy was a game changer. Stuck to his guns.

@EVERTONFC.

3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't worry la.

@nervesinapattern7261

3 жыл бұрын

You did an amazing job producing and researching this! Thank you, look forward to more of your videos!

@leecooper8589

3 жыл бұрын

Well, a hearty thanks from a subject of the not so United Kingdom. A fascinating piece of work that I stumbled upon due to KZread's algorithm. I've now subscribed and will definitely be watching (and learning much more from) your other episodes.

@fintonmainz7845

Жыл бұрын

A 20 minute video couldn't have been better. Great work. Thank you.

I suppose if the complexities, realities and narratives contained in this video are sufficiently ignored then one can apply labels to present parties and say “I told you so”. Properly understood, however, this is a fascinating edge of a very interesting and formative period of Irish history. Thanks.

"Time flows like a river, and history is bound to repeat "

@trevorbailey1486

3 жыл бұрын

If time flows like a river , how does it suddenly reverse direction to accommodate history's inclination to repeat itself? Or do rivers reverse themselves in whichever Ireland the author of that quote lived? Or are the two clauses in the sentence unconnected? I know research demonstrates conclusively that the Irish are the happiest of our species, but doesn't logic require more than a cheery disposish?

@paddyt4043

3 жыл бұрын

@@trevorbailey1486 a river almost always flows on the same course.. Just like history Now you should go study some history.

@sloughlin721

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully Ireland wakes up and make our ancestors’ sacrifices worthwhile

Here is a comment from the Daily Mail in the 1920's which would support your view of the blueshirts as more aligned with the early Fascisti idea of a Catholic militia than the later form of state fascism. By the time of the Irish blueshirts, it was evolving into the latter, but the Italian version in significant part had its roots in a militant Catholic reaction against communism. "Italy has turned the tide against Bolshevism, and it may yet be said that she has saved Europe. The victory of the Fascisti, which swept into power that strange dominant personality, Benito Mussolini-knight of the 15th century in white spats and a morning coat-is still but imperfectly understood and appreciated by the outside world. Comparatively few people realise that, apart from the Great War, the revolt of Italy's young manhood against the tyranny of Red Socialism will be set down by historians as the most important movement of our time […] It has fought a holy war […] Christianity, patriotism, loyalty to the state, liberty of the individual, recognition of the rights and duties of all classes of society, co-operation of all classes for the good of the country, obedience to established authority, social morality-all these tenets of national life which Bolshevism would consign to the dust-heap have again been embraced by the people of Italy, high and low alike, in a spirit of enthusiasm which is nothing less than sublime."

@chinggiskhan6678

2 жыл бұрын

Still has the belief in a Racial Hierarchy in it, so yeah Fascists

@seanfaherty

2 жыл бұрын

No, they were fascists. Don't fool yourself. People also pretend America's fascist movement between the wars was just good fun and wasn't part of that whole eugenics/genocide thing. We know better. Don't gaslight people.

@stover14

2 жыл бұрын

​@@chinggiskhan6678 lol WHAT?! do you know anything about fascism my friend? fascism has literally nothing to do with race, you should actually learn what fascism is instead of taking what other people say about it at face value. Mussolini even went so far as to state race has no place in a fascist society. please dont make baseless comments about things you haven't taken the time to educate yourself on.

@stover14

2 жыл бұрын

​@@seanfaherty genocide has no part in fascism.

Fantastic work

My grandad was in Tralee in 1933 was part of the FF/ Sinn Fein support when Duffy got 8 stiches from a lead pipe it was the last time that the Garda station in Tralee came under fire that had to bring soldiers from Limerick to restore order

@patglennon9671

2 жыл бұрын

Tralee was always a strong republican town,

@conlaiarla

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be too proud of that .it merely illustrates the thuggery which the Blueshirts were formed to oppose was very real and their views of the Republicans as a threat to free speech were fully indorsed by violence against opponents.

@user-db5kk7hd5y

4 ай бұрын

Still is today

Excellent documentary !! It begs the question ... If Michael Collins had lived would he have taken the Blue Shirts even further ? After all, a large proportion of his supporters / comrades were very prominent in the Blur Shirt movement 1933 onwards. ie Richard Mulcahy, Eoin O'Duffy, Kevin O'Higgins et al.

Great channel, nice to see someone shining a light on how Facism was foundation of this party.

@amadeus3341

3 жыл бұрын

But never racism

@oliver69cork46

3 жыл бұрын

It wasn't the foundation of fine gael,look at the video again. It was a presence due to o Duffy but not the foundation,its here documented and well detailed.

@johnmilligan6605

3 жыл бұрын

Fine Gael have never apologised for their complicencey in the deaths of nearly sixty million human beings in WW2 as a direct result of the fascist attempt to take over the world simple as that no iffs no butts they supported and condoned the blue shirts who were part of the fascist international movement of the therties anyone who can view their iconic immagery and vocal retoric must be both deaf and blind they were fascist to the core and a few of their party still are

@nigelraporam6917

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnmilligan6605 how are they responsible for all the deaths in ww2 because they were right wing by your logic sinn fein being left wing makes them responsible for in excess of 100 million deaths due to communism

@snowflakemelter1172

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnmilligan6605 daft argument.

Thank you from a British viewer with Irish ancestry on my Fathers side. Hadn’t known the details of the blue shirts from my Pa apart from him saying they were facist sympathisers.

@davekeating.

3 жыл бұрын

Your Pa was right on that front...

@Minime163

3 жыл бұрын

That's all I ever heard about them and wheather its true or not that they wanted to overthrow the government

@davekeating.

3 жыл бұрын

@@Minime163 They couldn't overthrow an omelette : )

"Beware of Manxmen" 🇮🇲 🙃😳 Thank you for this interesting episode.

This is why Fine Gael want history removed as a subject from schools.

They haven't changed only FF have have joined them

@paulcolin9071

4 күн бұрын

The whole uniparty a bunch of degenerates

Doesn't the coloured shirt start with Garibaldi not Mussolini? Getting rid of foreign control and national unification linking the two movements.

@johnkilmartin5101

2 жыл бұрын

@Digger Gardi that was both funny and educational. Just as hagis is a misunderstanding of a sausage these seem to be the result of someone heating about a date square/ matrimonial cake.

@hachwarwickshire292

2 жыл бұрын

Was it not the colour of his old WW1 Regiment ? Mussolini ?

The song viva la Qita brigada brought me here I wanted to find out more about frank ryly and the 15 international brigade very interesting stuff

@f.b508

3 жыл бұрын

What would you like to know about the international brigade I know a lot about them

@f.b508

3 жыл бұрын

I can tell u a lot about the international brigade my grandad fought in Spain with Frank Ryan

@tech9auto223

3 жыл бұрын

@@f.b508 to begin with did he take part in the battle for Madrid and was bob hillard really a pastor and can you suggest any good documentaries or programmes and did frank survive the war?

@9colm6

3 жыл бұрын

@@tech9auto223 even the olives are bleeding is a good doc to start with, fairly balanced with interviews from both sides

@tech9auto223

3 жыл бұрын

@@9colm6 thanks mate going to check it out right now I started being interested in usual Irish hero's who'd fought in 1916 etc then somehow I found the song and since then frank rillie bob hillard have become heroes of mine for a pastor to take up arms he must have truly believed in his cause

Very good

@TheIrishNationLives

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

NP anish agus On’E Abu!

Strange seing the amount of fine gael supporters and Blueshirts in the comments

@aidanwalsh3930

3 жыл бұрын

Why is it strange? Because they are patriotic or not of Welsh descendants (Uasal Breathnach)

@esmeephillips5888

3 жыл бұрын

Only 'strange' if you cannot concede the possibility of people disagreeing with you being intelligent and honest.

@conlaiarla

3 ай бұрын

Why is it strange?

Duffy ended up in Spain however thy raised quite amount of money for the Spanish Nationalists

PTSD 🍀❤️

Físeán maith!

Gaelgoir ❤️🍀

Excellent........go raibh maith agat

yet fine gael today dnt talk about o Duffy as a founding member wonder why

@ruairijoseph

3 жыл бұрын

Because SF are the unclean and that’s that…

Just found you!

Shelter 👍✔️

No wonder the North has been reluctant to join the Republic.

My grandad fought against O Duffy.. with the 15th international brigade. no Pasaran ✊

@borisjohnson4095

3 жыл бұрын

Your Grandad was Cringe

@oliver69cork46

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah well done for the communists, every bit as bad as the fascists.

@brianbreen1026

3 жыл бұрын

O Duffy's men did very little fighting after a couple of scuffles and an artillery strike which by some miracle killed none they decamped to a village where they drank wine for the rest of the war.Now that's the General for me.Frank Ryan's men saw action by contrast.

@icemanire5467

3 жыл бұрын

@@borisjohnson4095 two of them were cringe. Both authoritarian ideologies only too happy to commit mass murder, only difference is one sides crimes are overlooked.

@johnmilligan6605

3 жыл бұрын

It's important that we honnor his and his comrades memory aespecially at this time when the fascists are on the march again spouting the same old lies about free speech and the Soviets being the same as Hitler's mob the fact that the overwhelming majority of decient people can easily see through this nonsense does not mean we can be complacent they are as evil today as they were back then and by their very nature cannot be spoken to or dealt with as normal human beings we must teach our children to hate and curs all that fascism stands for just as our grand P

Didn't de Valera sign the German embassy condolence book when Hitler died.

@ACNC1

3 жыл бұрын

I thought Ireland was meant to be neutral.... did he sign one for mussolini?

@charlespirate1

3 жыл бұрын

@@ACNC1 Mussolini wasn’t head of state or government when he died.

@andym9571

3 жыл бұрын

@@ACNC1 Ireland let German Uboats land there. As always Ireland was divided.

@paulneville7154

2 жыл бұрын

@@andym9571 bs, the only time a U boat docked in Irish waters was to surrender..

@missingno88

Жыл бұрын

indeed he did. incredibly based

Jealous of fine Gael ❤️🍀🥊 can survive on the knomes👍

I know little of Irish history apart from the Irish literature so it's good to become a little aquainted with my vast ignorance. i know Greek History mind.

“Me Daddy was a Blue Shirt and my mother a Madame my brother earned his medals at My Lai in Vietnam. S Macgowan.

🍀🌙👍

Some people on here criticising the actions of the Blueshirts way back in the 1930s, but quite happy to wave the flag and apologise for the terrorism of the Provisional IRA in the 1970s-1990s. Some myopic double standards at play. And zero criticism of De Valera and Fianna Fáil whose economic war with Britain was a complete disaster for Ireland and who welded the State to the Roman Catholic Church. An unhappy marriage that we only began to extricate ourselves from in the 1990s.

@san8524

3 жыл бұрын

The RC church, in my fathers words he was “tortured by the priests” we all know what that means now!

@paddypenman2682

3 жыл бұрын

Yet we have hopped into bed with just as undesirable elements now, one's which will take us over the social cliff face.

@gavindoyle692

3 жыл бұрын

@@paddypenman2682 Are those vague “undesirable elements” that you mention, buggering children and then covering it up, forcing unmarried mothers to give up their babies, and pressurising gay people to take conversion therapy? Nope. Didn’t think so.

@cuhulainsblood

3 жыл бұрын

@@gavindoyle692 Is that opposed to cutting their babies to bits by a Pakistani "doctor ".

@gavindoyle692

3 жыл бұрын

@@cuhulainsblood Pakistani doctor?! Why bring race into this? I can see why you hide behind an anonymous pseudonym.

Am I right that O 'Duffy at some point ended up in Spain on he side of Franco? Am I also right that he and his volunteers were asked politely to leave Spain as they were enjoying themselves a little too much. My mother use to have a bit of a chuckle as one of her wider family was a blue shirt, she thought that he had a bit of a problem s he liked 'dressing up'. He ended up in England after the second World War and made a fortune,. He however kept his past to himself - wonder why?

what are Manx men ?

@martyfeldman3269

3 жыл бұрын

People from the Isle of Man.

Conflict, Conflict, Conflict. I Wonder what went Wrong with Ireland.

A question to ask is O'Brien not Scottish and it also Burns are they not Scottish then they have these generals in America called O'Brien are they not related to the fascist similar to Duffy are they not related to fascist in Yorkshire

Apropos O’Duffy’s volonteer contingent force to support Franco’s rebellion against the legitimate government in Spain, and your reference to his force suffering losses from friendly fire, the version I have seen is that fairly soon after their arrival and soon dispatched to one part of the front they met, confronted and opened fire upon a detachment of Carlist Requetes ie supporters of a contestant monarchist group supporters of Franco failing to recognise their distinctive uniforms as allies of Franco’s Nationalists whereupon Franco told them they weren’t needed and to return whence they came. Given that you refer to their being victims of friendly fire which I have no doubt is correct, I am a little surprised you have not come across the references to their relatively short stay in Spain and that the reasons for this were because of their causing a dozen or so deaths among Franco’s Nationalist and Carlist military supporters. Otherwise, this is an excellent document, well delivered. Good continuation!

@donutemptycircle8717

3 жыл бұрын

O'Duffy's men showed an unacceptable lack of enthusiasm when asked to murder some young female prisoners and were deemed useless and sent packing.

@Kitiwake

3 жыл бұрын

The legitimate government of Spain couldn't prevent the wholesale implosion and anarchy which occurred while they had tenure.

@Kitiwake

3 жыл бұрын

@@donutemptycircle8717 in the meantime it didn't prevent the murder by communists of 13 bishops, 4,172 diocesan priests and seminarians, 2,364 monks and friars and 283 nuns.

@the4thindustrialrevolution225

2 жыл бұрын

Communists aren't human

@FPSIreland2

Жыл бұрын

@@Kitiwake catholics I presume? Go maith. Go hálainn a deirtear. Probably raped and abused thousands of Spanish children between them.

Eoin O'Duffy Abu from Liverpool. He knew the score. Ahead of his time. Go ed .

@jpgduff

3 жыл бұрын

He was a facist. No pasaran.

@EVERTONFC.

3 жыл бұрын

@@jpgduff no parmesan.

@sloughlin721

Жыл бұрын

🇮🇪✝️

I wish they were called the green shirts instead

very good presentation with pictures of Blueshirts I think few of us had seen before-much more than in Mannings book.One slight error at 21.06.The Brittish Customs post was smeared with a flyer from Archetects of The Resurrection,a truly fascist party founded to promote the Irish language,traditions and heritage who garnished some support and had very fascist leanings.Good book written about them too.

A community 👍🍀❤️ 🌙🍀

Who ever ironed their tattered blue shirts ought to have been fired on the spot.

at least fine Gael could have a feed👍

One of my grandparents was O’Duffy lol, crazy to see him in all these videos. I know it seems he is fascist, and he kind of is. Really, he just liked the look of them (says my father) so yeah. In other words, the least fascist fascist.

Eoin O'Duffy was a hero change my mind he heard the voice of Éire telling him to protect Ireland and answer the call

@EVERTONFC.

3 жыл бұрын

Is right. He knew the craic. Go ed.

@brendanforester4601

3 жыл бұрын

Do Dhia agus d'Éirinn, O'Duffy Abu! 📿☘

@donallbreathnach9998

3 жыл бұрын

He literally had a boner for hitler and Mussolini..

@DARRAGH396

3 жыл бұрын

@@donallbreathnach9998 Is there a problem with that?

@bothi00

3 жыл бұрын

@@DARRAGH396 nice try kid

8:52 Irish nationalist crowd doing Roman salute 🫢🫢🫢

O'Duffy abú

@davekeating.

3 жыл бұрын

I hear he was a real sucker for any man in a uniform? : ) "Suck," he says, "blows only an expression."

@FPSIreland2

3 жыл бұрын

Gabh suas air mar sin…

@davekeating.

3 жыл бұрын

@@FPSIreland2 Who put the big “O” in O’Duffy ; )

@missingno88

Жыл бұрын

a great man

@patrickhamill2847

20 күн бұрын

As he rots in hell.

Hopefully we'll finally see the end of west brit fg after the next general election.

@CollieJenn

3 жыл бұрын

Can't stand the FG partitionist enablers but compared to FF they are national heroes.

@stephenkane1074

3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully the sickness of sectarianism will die out in modern Ireland.

@Minime163

3 жыл бұрын

@@CollieJenn if ff don't get rid of Martin they're history I'm not pushed about any party I think they're all a self serving shower of freeloaders but Martin isn't even an excuse of a leader

@CollieJenn

3 жыл бұрын

@@Minime163 The worst Taoseach. Ever.

@stephenwright8824

2 жыл бұрын

@@stephenkane1074 _Hopefully the sickness of sectarianism will die out in modern Ireland._ Asked why, if he so disliked the way most people in society interact and thought it was self-defeating, he still went out in public, HL Mencken answered with his own question, _Why do people go to zoos?_ As it was in Tudor times, as it was in Elizabethan times, as it was in Georgian times, as it was in Victorian times, Ireland is the Western world's political zoo. *It can never be otherwise.*

You couldn’t make it up

Now it's the eu.

I found it strange that the Blue Shirts supported Franco in Spain. Franco had a very poor attitude to minority groups who spoke minority languages and persecuted people like the Galicians who had a Celtic heritage.

@daniellinehan63

Жыл бұрын

Franco was a rat who used Hitler, like Tito using that mass murderer stalin

@user-io6hz6ro1z

Жыл бұрын

Galicians have not Celtic heritage.

A very interesting video on pre politics in Ireland. As a Brit its easy to know the usual British and European pre war basics but its great to get an insight to what was going on in Ireland. I can highly recommend a video on pre war US politics about Huey Long a Democratic politician who was loved and hated in equal measure and was feared would become a dictator: kzread.info/dash/bejne/mKCuo8dwoai_nMY.html Its easy to think we live with stable institutions when they could in fact be built on sand.

Long live Irish Blueshirts

Roman teaching of Sicilian Mafia a black guy called Mohammed 1500 years ago who wanted to learn hieroglyphs and Chinese Mandarin language based on visual like the Egyptians they didn't have any mercy for Jesus better known as Yuhan Yusuf Asus Alliance Saa laam Din . Ancient linguist of body language

One of the keys to Irish neutrality in the war - those who were anti-fascist were also anti-British, those who were pro-British were also pro-fascist (James Dillon excepted).

@andym9571

3 жыл бұрын

Why were Uboats allowed to dock in western Ireland then ?

@markpower9081

2 жыл бұрын

@@andym9571 Where did you read that? On Rangers supporters comments section? It's a ridiculous myth.

@ralphraffles1394

2 жыл бұрын

@@markpower9081 How about German post war documents showing extensive collusion between Irish politicians and Hitler’s Nazi party. Including an agreed joint invasion plan of N.Ireland.

@markpower9081

2 жыл бұрын

@@ralphraffles1394 I have no idea what you're talking about. It would be a very significant historical story and well known if it were true. I suspect it isn't. I suspect your mistaking a handful of pretty aimless IRA activists with any or all members of the Irish legislature and/or executive. In reality "Irish politicians" were imprisoning every German spy who landed in Ireland, breaching neutrality in a variety of ways to help the Allies, and imprisoning and in some cases executing IRA members. If there was any collaboration between Irish politicians and the Nazis, British intelligence would have been aware of it, and the British government would have reacted. And they would have been within their rights to act. And de Valera was well aware of this. But there wasn't so they didn't.

@conlaiarla

2 жыл бұрын

Trite and incorrect.

West Brits like the other buddies of Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein with other lackeys

Why we didnt join with Germany in the 30s ill never know

Great video but they were definitely fascist they wanted a dictatorship a corporate state and Mussolini also used Catholicism and Hitler tried to link the 2 church's together just because the blueshirts were Catholic doesn't stop them being fascist, we can just be thankful that they were too unorganised to get full power. Again great video and you deserve the follow.

@stover14

2 жыл бұрын

what exactly is your grievance with fascism?

@DoninicGoland96

2 жыл бұрын

@@stover14 are you being serious? or stupid? or both?

@stover14

2 жыл бұрын

@@DoninicGoland96 whats with being hostile man? i just asked you a question in good faith. i dont get people like you. theres no reason to be hostile

@stover14

2 жыл бұрын

@@DoninicGoland96 people like you are weird. i never said anything rude to you.

@DoninicGoland96

2 жыл бұрын

@@stover14 your asking what's bad about fascism (despite the absolute obvious) and now your getting all wimpy. Fascism is authoritarian, racist, violent, nonsense that doesn't work. Is that enough reasons?

Always loyal to Germany 🇩🇪 & now EU lackeys

I wish FG were still Blueshirts. We might a few fewer illegal immigrants.

The Irish still need freedom. Complete freedom from it's neighbour.

@williamgillbanks5373

3 жыл бұрын

How is your Neighbour affecting your freedom? Ireland is in the EU so how is England enslaving Ireland? I would like to see free passage between Ireland and the UK stopped as Ireland is a Foreign Country.

@nigelraporam6917

3 жыл бұрын

@@williamgillbanks5373 yes close the border along the irish sea where it belongs and leave us to our own island

@Porkcylinder

3 жыл бұрын

Oh grow up you whinging victim. Does that include the two million Irish who happily choose to live- work in Britain? Or do you mean freedom from being allowed to claim their benefits and even vote not to mention come and go as you please without anything. The victim narrative is getting boring not to mention pathetic.

@snowflakemelter1172

3 жыл бұрын

You can have all your Travellers and Gypsies back .

@nigelraporam6917

3 жыл бұрын

@@Porkcylinder you're a bit stupid if you think there are two million irish people in the uk there's only like 300000 just as many english nationals in ireland as irish nationals in uk. Perhaps you should realise England isn't exactly some economic powerhouse your economy is dwarfed by Germany

As for the main question - is person or movement x 'fascist' - the best answer is to look to see if fascism can be defined. IMO, it can't and even family resemblance theory doesn't go far enough. Fascism had the power to say it existed and had identifiable features. Whether or not that's true, remains debated.

@snowflakemelter1172

3 жыл бұрын

Of course it can be defined it's a political ideology set out by it's creators ( Italian socialists ) in great detail.

@damianbylightning6823

3 жыл бұрын

@@snowflakemelter1172 And I agree a lot with that - but fascism's self-definition can't survive the battering it takes from the 'problem of other minds'. Also, the narrative prevents us from discussing it honestly - with leftists insisting on the existence of the fabled political spectrum - with them sitting at the opposite end of an ultimate evil. You'll not get them to treat this matter seriously while they can profit from this fiction. Ask yourself who inspired the wider aspects of what is lumped together with fascism - racist inspired genocide. All historians know the 1st use of the idea of racist genocide was on the left, particularly the French left on the middle 19th century. The general public and leftists don't know this and resist the truth when you tell them. Few historians know that it was an Irish socialist, that moral cretin GB Shaw, who 1st thought up the utilitarian and consequentialist logic of the Holocaust. Same response here. Indeed getting scholarship done on such topics is, let alone chatter, is almost impossible. .A future generation may have reasonable conversations on this subject - it won't happen in my lifetime. .

@damianbylightning6823

3 жыл бұрын

@@snowflakemelter1172 Btw if you haven't read it already, I highly recommend Berlin's essay on De Miastre. Fascism needs both reaction and liberal modernism, - is one clear conclusion you can draw from it.

@snowflakemelter1172

3 жыл бұрын

@@damianbylightning6823 are you pro fascism ?

@damianbylightning6823

3 жыл бұрын

@@snowflakemelter1172 Sorry it's long! It's difficult to reject fascism, when you doubt its existence - I'll give it a go though. I take Wittgenstein very seriously when dealing with the problem of other minds. I view 'fascism' as primarily a problem of language. This seemingly amoral description is a philosophically technical term that's prone to misunderstanding. My instinct tells me fascism is a mixture of approaches, much like most ideologies - just worse. This is why I like Berlin's explanation - who sees in fascism conservative reaction, 'conservative revolution', modernism, liberalism and an acceptance and rejection of the Enlightenment. It needs Voltaire as much as it needs De Maistre an Evola or a Giovanni Gentile. All in all, fascism seems to me to be closest to the socialism which I despise - and has strong anti-conservative bits that I distrust. Like socialism, it wants the state to have magic-like abilities to do away with allegedly unnecessary conflict. For them this seems to be one of the state's primary roles, if not its primary role. This is utterly delusional IMO and imagines a level of governmental and organisational competence not known to modern govt. OTOH the classical liberal does not or should not take the socialist and fascist view seriously. The CL sees the state as having little or no competence and hardly any fitness to judge what is appropriate or inappropriate, or unnecessary. As I see it, someone like Acton and his thinking is the ideal type of anti-fascist. I am with the Acton view and I distrust the socialist-fascist view. In Actonian fashion, I believe conflicts are good, in the long run, and we should distrust magic solutions to identification and forced resolution of 'unnecessary conflict'. Sadly, the fascist view just keeps winning and I am always reminded of Schumpeter's gloomy predictions. Of course, the Nazi doesn't fit into this model at all. IMO the Nazi just seems to make things up as he ambles along - until he is told to believe something or or do something. I make no claim to be able to understand this mumbo-jumbo. It seems arbitrary and a real mish mash beyond mish and mash and hotch and potch. I have read Heidegger and can't say I got much out of it that I couldn't get easier and better from Aristotle. I have also read Evola - and thought it to be a mixture of jokes and metaphors with some sincere observations that are quite mainstream. JE was a joker or a lunatic and made some sensible observations to jolt the reader as he wandered off in search of a new lunacy - but he did have an independent mind. Not sure if he was a fascist actually. He was also a poor version of a Nazi. So, I'm an anti-fascist, not that I ever use that cancerous term. What about you?

"spaniards, jews and manxmen". Presumably "spaniards " refers to de valera. Were there any jews or manxmen in th fianna fail government?

@davekeating.

Жыл бұрын

Ben Briscoe TD, and a fine politician too

I feel that they had heavy Fascist elements. O'Duffy, at least, was a fascist maybe not the group entirely.

Always remember the fascist origins of FG

@borisjohnson4095

3 жыл бұрын

Oh I do 💪🏻🙋🏻‍♂️

@nigelraporam6917

3 жыл бұрын

I will same as I remember that sinn fein and fianna fail rejected the will of the people of ireland who voted for the treaty overwhelmingly and started the civil war because their bloody traitors

@conlaiarla

3 ай бұрын

I do... pity that they went woke eh?

Why no mention of Jews ?

I am not sure where the Irish Army ended and the IRA began; I read that the formation of the Irish Republican Army was as a result of oppression by British interference with Ireland.

@stephenwright8824

2 жыл бұрын

31 January 1922: the founding of the Free State Army. You have it backwards, since it is widely held that the IRA was begun in Easter Week 1916 but not called IRA until *1917.* That other IRA that fought the Free State Army were the anti-Treaty Irregulars.

Ireland is finished.

@davekeating.

3 жыл бұрын

When did it start?

@Minime163

3 жыл бұрын

Did we win a medal

@Minime163

3 жыл бұрын

@UCvNAXunjNDXPx7-3cki_DNA I agree with you about pease hatred serves no purpose but wouldn't it be better to try to get the people of northern Ireland to trust eachother and work to build northern Ireland up to been a viable entity instead of jumping the gun to talk of a United Ireland that none of us either north or south of the border are ready for economically or emotionally I'd like a United Ireland but this just isn't the right time to consider it look at some of the praveling attitudes both north and south of the border

@ruairijoseph

3 жыл бұрын

@@Minime163 jumping the gun to talk about a United Ireland? That doesn’t even make sense. The NI state is 100 years old and has been a monumental failure like every other British policy in Ireland. I don’t care much for the term ‘United Ireland’… I want to see an end to British interference in Ireland and that time I guess will never be right for some. If southern Irish were prepared to rejoin the UK then northern Irish people would take their argument against a UI seriously… because that is what is being asked of them… accept what has never been acceptable to Irish people for the best part of a millennium… British rule in Ireland TAL

@stephenmcmahon5833

3 жыл бұрын

The loyalist Death Cult that is the 6 counties of ulster will be gone in minus 10 yrs and counting

No use commenting on this to many freestaters on here waste of time

@conlaiarla

3 ай бұрын

At last a sensible "Republican "

All you have to do is Google regarding 1933 British penny and the name will come up O'Brien specifying alleged only 7 was made of the 1933 British penny when actually 23 was made of the 1933 British ceremonial pennies experimental is it not true the bowler hats are fascist is it McCarthy a Scottish name related Duffy of Metro the police

very nice flag have you got any more? i would take out the white stripes and put black instead by the way ireland did become fascist (ie) a corporate state

The fascist core of Fine Gael is still there. AGS is treated as the military wing of FG. Their private property to be protected at all costs.