Die Blueshirts wurden 1932 von Eoin O’Duffy gegründet. Die Idee dahinter war, dass sie die Mitglieder vor Angriffen der IRA vor Angriffen schützen würden, und aus diesem Grund waren sie paramilitärisch. Jetzt war Irland 1932 zutiefst katholisch (viel zu sagen über eine gute Messe!). Zwei Dinge fanden für mich in den Blueshirts heraus, sie waren später Teil von Fine Gael, aber der umstrittenere Aspekt war, dass sie in Spanien für Franco gekämpft haben. O’Duffy war auch eine Weile im Gardai Head Honcho. Er nahm seine religiöse Leidenschaft ernst und schob dies in den Gardai.
In direktem Widerspruch seiner Überzeugungen war O Duffy auch homosexuell, zu dieser Zeit illegal, aber in einem offenen Geheimnis stand er in einer Beziehung mit dem Dramatiker Michael Mac Liammoir. Forscher Denis Staunton sagte, mein C Liammoir mochte "Größere, rauere Männer “(Ich bin in dieser Kategorie, in modernen Begriffen, die wir Bären genannt werden!). Dies war anscheinend die anfängliche Anziehungskraft auf eoin o duffy.
Die Beziehung wurde von denjenigen dokumentiert, die wissen, aber durch verschleierte Referenzen oder Subtilität. Eoin O Duffy sammelte Mac Liammoir in einem gepanzerten Auto aus der Abtei.
Mac Liammoir stand in einer Beziehung zu Hilton Edwards und war lange Zeit ein führendes Licht im irischen Schauspiel, und er und sein Partner wurden 1973 mit der Freiheit der Stadt ausgezeichnet.
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Sure aren’t they all !!!
Masking insecurity with aggression.Old as humanity.
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O’Duffy was treated as a joke by the actual fascists of Europe. Franco sent him home because his blueshirts were so shite.
Even fascism thought he was a joke.
Eoin O‘ Puffy. Jokes aside the exact prick that would be at the front of the anti gay marriage movement if he was alive a few years ago.
A stain on Ireland’s bear community. She’s not with us.
Nice piece… the Blueshirts would also do straight-arm Nazi salutes and shout „Hoch, O’Duffaigh“ to their beloved Führer.
O’Duffy would turn his catholic pictures into the wall when he was riding lads so Jesus and Mary wouldn’t see his sin. He also loved bigging up the importance of the Irish language despite not speaking it and promoting healthy living despite being a drunk who never exercised. The man was a complete hypocrite.
Although it’s a common misconception that the Blueshirts went to Spain. The Blueshirts dissolved in 1935 after a split and O’Duffy had been sidelined within Fine Gael to the extent he resigned in 1934.
O’Duffy went to Spain in 1936 after he’d founded the full blown fascist National Corporate Party.
Like the rest of the Irish Brigade in Spain, O’Duffy was such a drunken embarrassment in Spain that the Irish brigade were repatriated. Whereas the republican Connolly Column fought with distinction.
How Im not the least bit surprised
I hear you’re a self-loathing fascist now father
He wasn’t the founder of Irish fascism.
He was likely more anti communist than fascists.
He was a Nationalist but so was everyone.
He was also Catholic and practicing.
Him being Gay is a rumour and I don’t believe it to be confirmed. Given it was rumoured as a secret, it likely never could be confirmed. I also don’t understand why you’d focus on his sexuality. It’s one part of home, it doesn’t define him.
Looking at people with today’s lens doesn’t give you an accurate view of what people were like.
BIG RIG BEAR
So was Ernst Rohm, head of the Nazi SA.