The Blueshirts and Irish Politics
By Mike Cronin.
Description
This book covers a marginalised period in Irish history. Many people are aware of the existence of the Blueshirts, yet their knowledge is usually drawn from a snapshot, which sees the movement as an aberration of Irish life in the 1930s which toyed with the ideas of fascism. At a domestic level, this book shows how the movement challenged the ascendancy of de Valera and forced a realignment of traditional pro-Treaty forces under the name of Fine Gael. Within this framework new material drawn from government archives, private papers and interviews with former Blueshirts, shows how divided th...
ISBN(s)
1851823336, 9781851823338
