Talk:Blue Shirt

Scheiße! -- Ramenta Plumbi (talk) 14:51, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

Well, the PDF on the Blueshirts I was torrenting now has no one seeding it, going at a nice steady 0b/s with 15mb to go. Only one more infinity and I'll be ready to go again at this page! I'll have to find another source for the PDF, z-lib has failed me. Ramenta Plumbi (talk) 14:51, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

Well, I suppose now that I have to wait, I might as well explain what I meant by "O'Duffy WAS the Blueshirts!". In modern Ireland, there is apparently much debate over whether or not the Blueshirts were Fascist, there is no such debate for O'Duffy. Despite O'Duffy making the Fine Gael party what it is, giving the National Guard the blue shirts for which they are named, and leading it throughout its only period of relevancy, the Fine Gael today denounces him just as the original founder of the ACA denounced fascism in the 60s (I think it was the 60s, at least). O'Duffy led the remnants of the Blueshirts that actually followed him and his Fascist ideals into Spain, and it was this splinter of the Blueshirts, not the "legitimate" now youth-org Blueshirts of Fine Gael, that fought in Spain. To summarize, O'Duffy is the cause and epitome of everything that made the Blueshirts noteworthy and great, this man is a hero who is dragged through the mud as a stain on the history of Fine Gael, when he is the only reason they exist.