The United Ireland newspaper reported on June 9, 1934, that a 'girl Blueshirt' was attacked and received a severe beating and ‘her blue shirt was practically torn off her’. Blue Blouses in ...

Irish Nazis Oppose Jews, Call Selves “blue Shirts”, Salute ... “Alien control and influence in national affairs,” is one of the objects which the Blue Shirts of Ireland are bound by their ...

grown out of a specifically Irish situation they shared a lot of the features with fascist movements abroad. These included anti-Semitism, anti-communism, hatred of democracy, indoctrination of ...

The uniform with blue shirt was adopted at a meeting three months after the election, in April 1933. Connections were immediately drawn with Hitler’s Brownshirts and Mussolini’s Blackshirts.

However, he was almost on target when referencing that Barrett was making “brown shirt” fascist political statements. The more historically-accurate Irish term – “blueshirts” – might ...

Two Blue Shirts came out. They were beaten down. When police tried to intervene, the Kerrymen whanged them unmercifully, finally got so completely out of hand that troops had to be called out.