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58 relations: Ailtirí na hAiséirghe, Anglo-Irish Trade War, Anti-communism, Arthur Griffith, Éamon de Valera, Benito Mussolini, Blue Shirts, Blueshirts, Commandant, Commonwealth of Nations, Corporatism, Coup d'état, Cumann na nGaedheal, Dublin, Eoin O'Duffy, Ernest Blythe, Eunan O'Halpin, F. S. L. Lyons, Fascism, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Francisco Franco, Garda Síochána, Glasnevin Cemetery, Greenshirts (National Corporate Party), Integral nationalism, Irish Army, Irish Brigade (Spanish Civil War), Irish Civil War, Irish Free State, Irish nationalism, Irish Republican Army, Irish Republican Army (1922–1969), Irish War of Independence, James Dillon (Fine Gael politician), Kevin O'Higgins, March on Rome, Maurice Manning, Michael Collins (Irish leader), Michael Farrell (activist), Michael O'Riordan, National Army (Ireland), National Centre Party (Ireland), National Corporate Party, Ned Cronin, Pluto Press, President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, Right-wing politics, Roman salute, Spanish Civil War, ..., Teachta Dála, The Irish Times, Thomas F. O'Higgins, Tim Pat Coogan, United Ireland, W. T. Cosgrave, Young Ireland, 1934 Montreux Fascist conference. Expand index (8 more) »
Ailtirí na hAiséirghe
Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (meaning "Architects of the Resurrection") was a minor radical nationalist and fascist political party in Ireland, founded by Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin in March 1942.
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Anglo-Irish Trade War
The Anglo-Irish Trade War (also called the Economic War) was a retaliatory trade war between the Irish Free State and the United Kingdom from 1932 to 1938.
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Anti-communism
Anti-communism is opposition to communism.
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Arthur Griffith
Arthur Joseph Griffith (Art Seosamh Ó Gríobhtha; 31 March 1871 – 12 August 1922) was an Irish politician and writer, who founded and later led the political party Sinn Féin.
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Éamon de Valera
Éamon de Valera (first registered as George de Valero; changed some time before 1901 to Edward de Valera; 14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975) was a prominent statesman and political leader in 20th-century Ireland.
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Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF).
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Blue Shirts
The term "Blue Shirts", when used by itself, can refer to several organizations, mostly fascist organizations found in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Blueshirts
The Army Comrades Association (ACA), later the National Guard, then Young Ireland and finally League of Youth, but better known by the nickname The Blueshirts (Na Léinte Gorma), was a Right-wing movement in the Irish Free State in the early 1930s.
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Commandant
Commandant is a title often given to the officer in charge of a military (or other uniformed service) training establishment or academy.
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Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.
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Corporatism
Corporatism is the organization of a society by corporate groups and agricultural, labour, military or scientific syndicates and guilds on the basis of their common interests.
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Coup d'état
A coup d'état, also known simply as a coup, a putsch, golpe de estado, or an overthrow, is a type of revolution, where the illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus occurs.
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Cumann na nGaedheal
Cumann na nGaedheal ("Society of the Gaels"), sometimes spelt Cumann na nGaedhael, was a political party in the Irish Free State, which formed the government from 1923 to 1932.
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Dublin
Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.
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Eoin O'Duffy
Eoin O'Duffy (Eoin Ó Dubhthaigh; born Owen Duffy, 28 January 1890 – 30 November 1944) was an Irish nationalist political activist, soldier and police commissioner.
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Ernest Blythe
Ernest William Blythe (13 April 1889 – 23 February 1975) was an Irish journalist, managing director of the Abbey Theatre, and politician who served as Minister for Finance from 1923 to 1932, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs and Vice-President of the Executive Council from 1927 to 1932 and Minister for Local Government from 1922 to 1923.
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Eunan O'Halpin
Eunan O'Halpin is Bank of Ireland Professor of Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin.
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F. S. L. Lyons
Francis Stewart Leland Lyons, FBA (11 November 1923 – 21 September 1983) was an Irish historian and academic who was provost of Trinity College, Dublin from 1974–81.
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Fascism
Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian ultranationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce, which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.
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Fianna Fáil
Fianna Fáil (meaning 'Soldiers of Destiny' or 'Warriors of Fál'), officially Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party (Fianna Fáil – An Páirtí Poblachtánach), is a political party in Ireland.
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Fine Gael
Fine Gael (English: Family or Tribe of the Irish) is a liberal-conservative and Christian democratic political party in Ireland.
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Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a military dictator from 1939, after the Nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War, until his death in 1975.
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Garda Síochána
An Garda Síochána (meaning "the Guardian of the Peace"), more commonly referred to as the Gardaí ("Guardians") or "the Guards", is the police force of the Republic of Ireland.
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Glasnevin Cemetery
Glasnevin Cemetery (Reilig Ghlas Naíon) is a large cemetery in Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland which opened in 1832.
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Greenshirts (National Corporate Party)
The Greenshirts were members of the fascist National Corporate Party (NCP) in Ireland in the 1930s.
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Integral nationalism
Integral nationalism (nationalisme intégral) is a type of nationalism originated in 19th-century France and opposed to Risorgimento nationalism.
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Irish Army
The Irish Army, known simply as the Army (an tArm), is the land component of the Defence Forces of Ireland.
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Irish Brigade (Spanish Civil War)
The Irish Brigade ("Irish Brigade") fought on the Nationalist side of Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War.
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Irish Civil War
The Irish Civil War (Cogadh Cathartha na hÉireann; 28 June 1922 – 24 May 1923) was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United Kingdom but within the British Empire.
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Irish Free State
The Irish Free State (Saorstát Éireann; 6 December 192229 December 1937) was a state established in 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921.
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Irish nationalism
Irish nationalism is an ideology which asserts that the Irish people are a nation.
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Irish Republican Army
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is any of several paramilitary movements in Ireland in the 20th and 21st centuries dedicated to Irish republicanism, the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic.
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Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)
The original Irish Republican Army (IRA) fought a guerrilla war against British rule in Ireland in the Irish War of Independence between 1919 and 1921.
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Irish War of Independence
The Irish War of Independence (Cogadh na Saoirse) or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and the British security forces in Ireland.
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James Dillon (Fine Gael politician)
James Matthew Dillon (26 September 1902 – 10 February 1986) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of Fine Gael from 1959 to 1965 and Minister for Agriculture from 1948 to 1951 and from 1954 to 1957.
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Kevin O'Higgins
Kevin Christopher O'Higgins (Caoimhghín Críostóir Ó hUigín; 7 June 1892 – 10 July 1927) was an Irish politician who served as Vice-President of the Executive Council and Minister for Justice.
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March on Rome
The March on Rome (Marcia su Roma) was an organized mass demonstration in October 1922, which resulted in Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista, or PNF) acceding to power in the Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia).
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Maurice Manning
Maurice Manning (born 14 June 1943) is an Irish academic and former Fine Gael politician.
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Michael Collins (Irish leader)
Michael Collins (Mícheál Ó Coileáin; 16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th-century Irish struggle for independence.
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Michael Farrell (activist)
Michael Farrell (born 1944) is an Irish civil rights activist, writer and former leader of People's Democracy, from its inception through to the 1969 Burntollet Bridge incident and into the 1970s.
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Michael O'Riordan
Michael O'Riordan (Mícheál Ó Ríordáin; 12 November 1917 – 18 May 2006) was the founder of the Communist Party of Ireland (3rd) and also fought with the Connolly Column in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.
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National Army (Ireland)
The National Army, sometimes unofficially referred to as the Free State army or the Regulars, was the army of the Irish Free State from January 1922 until October 1924.
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National Centre Party (Ireland)
The National Centre Party, initially known as the National Farmers and Ratepayers League, was a short-lived political party in the Irish Free State.
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National Corporate Party
The National Corporate Party (Páirtí Náisiúnta Corparáidíoch, PNC) was a fascist political party in Ireland founded by General Eoin O'Duffy in June 1935.
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Ned Cronin
Ned Cronin was a leader of the Blueshirts and a senior member of Fine Gael.
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Pluto Press
Pluto Press is a British independent book publisher based in London.
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President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State
The President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (Uachtarán ar Ard-Chomhairle Shaorstát Éireann) was the head of government or prime minister of the Irish Free State which existed from 1922 to 1937.
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Right-wing politics
Right-wing politics hold that certain social orders and hierarchies are inevitable, natural, normal or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics or tradition.
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Roman salute
The Roman salute (Italian: saluto romano) is a gesture in which the arm is held out forward straight, with palm down, and fingers touching.
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Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española),Also known as The Crusade (La Cruzada) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War (Cuarta Guerra Carlista) among Carlists, and The Rebellion (La Rebelión) or Uprising (Sublevación) among Republicans.
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Teachta Dála
A TD (plural TDanna in Irish or TDs in English; full Irish form Teachta Dála,, plural Teachtaí Dála) is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (the Irish Parliament).
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The Irish Times
The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859.
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Thomas F. O'Higgins
Thomas Francis O'Higgins (8 April 1890 – 1 November 1953) was an Irish Fine Gael politician and medical practitioner who served as Minister for Defence from 1948 to 1951, Minister for Industry and Commerce from March 1951 to June 1951 and Leader of the Opposition from January 1944 to June 1944.
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Tim Pat Coogan
Timothy Patrick "Tim Pat" Coogan (born 22 April 1935) is an Irish historian, writer, broadcaster and newspaper columnist.
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United Ireland
United Ireland (also referred to as Irish reunification) is the proposition that the whole of Ireland should be a single sovereign state.
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W. T. Cosgrave
William Thomas Cosgrave (6 June 1880 – 16 November 1965) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as President of the Executive Council from 1922 to 1932, Leader of the Opposition from 1932 to 1944, Leader of Fine Gael from 1934 to 1944, Leader of Cumann na nGaedheal from 1923 to 1933, Chairman of the Provisional Government from August 1922 to December 1922, President of Dáil Éireann from September 1922 to December 1922, Minister for Finance from 1922 to 1923 and Minister for Local Government from 1919 to 1922.
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Young Ireland
Young Ireland (Éire Óg) was a political, cultural and social movement of the mid-19th century.
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1934 Montreux Fascist conference
The Fascist International Congress was a meeting held by deputies from a number of European Fascist organizations.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueshirts
