Fine Gael & Eoin O'Duffy, blue shirts, Army Comrades Association,
the Irish Republican Army, IRA, Civil War, Monaghan brigade, fascism, Nazism
Fine Gael http://rexcurry.net/fine-gael-eoin-oduffy.jpg
Did the Fine Gael adopt America's early stiff-armed salute and flag fanaticism
before it was done by the National Socialist German Workers Party?
Fine Gael might have been doing the salute well before 1933, when the NSGWP
gained dictatorship. http://rexcurry.net/fine-gael-eoin-oduffy.html
Eoin O'Duffy rose to prominence as Chief of Staff of the IRA at the time
of the Civil War and was commander of the Monaghan brigade and later IRA
Chief of Staff. At that time, as pro-treaty he split with de Valera. As the
first Chief Commissioner of the Garda Siochana (Irish police force), Eoin
O'Duffy emulated Mussolini in adopting America's early stiff-armed salute
and flag fanaticism. http://rexcurry.net/pledge-allegiance-pledge-allegiance2.jpg
Mussolini had learned the salute while Mussolini was a socialist leader (il
Duce) and well-known as a socialist journalist. As the leader of the Blueshirts
movement (Army Comrades Association), O'Duffy renamed it the National Guard.
The group also based its marches, flags and salutes (Hail, O'Duffy)
on those that the National Socialist German Workers Party had adopted from
National Socialists in the USA via various avenues, including film, travel
and even from the Harvard grad Ernst Hanfstaengl (see the work of the noted
symbologist Dr. Rex Curry). http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hanfstaengl.html
In 1933 O'Duffy was the founder of the Fine Gael Party which developed
from the Blueshirts, and was thus leader of the political opposition to
de Valera's Fianna Fail party. A year later he was ousted from the leadership
when he proposed an invasion of Northern Ireland. Fine Gael saw itself strongly
in the mainstream of European National Socialism and that can clearly be
seen in the words of John A. Costello who later became leader of Fine Gael
and Prime Minister of the Irish Republic. Speaking in the Dail he said "The
Blackshirts have been victorious in Italy and Hitler's Brownshirts have
been victorious in Germany, as assuredly the Blueshirts will be victorious
in Ireland." During the Spanish Civil War, O'Duffy led the 700 strong pro-Franco
Irish brigade, but the Spanish leader was not impressed by O'Duffy's drunken
antics and disbanded them.
During World War Two (Still known in the Republic of Ireland as the Emergency)
O'Duffy took a great interest in National Socialism with which his Peoples
National Party was closely aligned. He even went to the extent of sending
an offer to Hitler saying that he would raise a "Green Legion" of Irishmen
to fight on the Russian front (that, of course, was after the alliance of
the National Socialist German Workers Party and the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics in 1939, when they together invaded Poland in WWII, in a pact
to divide up Europe). As a National Socialist collaborator he spent time
in Germany discussing with German National Socialists in true Irish Republican
fashion precisely what he could do to assist in Hitler's campaign against
Britain.
The 'Green Duce' that had modelled himself on Mussolini and supported Hitler
died in 1944 and was buried with a state funeral in Glasnevin cemetry in
Dublin, alongide other supporters of Irish Republicanism such as Daniel O'Connell,
Roger Casement and O'Duffy's former comrade Michael Collins.
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn were recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for
their coverage of the democracy movement in China (the anti socialist / communist
movement). Dr. Rex Curry has been touted to receive the Pulitzer Prize
for his coverage of the National Socialism movement in the United States,
a movement that influended socialism / communism under the Peoples Republic
of China, the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the National
Socialist German Workers Party, and worldwide.
