I Blueshirts furono fondati da Eoin O’Duffy nel 1932. L’idea dietro di loro era che avrebbero protetto i membri dagli attacchi da parte dell’IRA e per questo erano di natura paramilitare. Ora il 1932 l’Irlanda era profondamente cattolica (molto da dire su una buona messa!). Due cose si sono distinte per me per le Blueshirts, in seguito avrebbero fatto parte di Fine Gael, ma l’aspetto più controverso è stato combattuto per Franco in Spagna. O’Duffy è stato anche head honcho nel Gardai per un po ‘. Prese sul serio il suo fervore religioso e lo spinse nel Gardai.
In diretta contraddizione con le sue convinzioni, O Duffy era anche omosessuale, illegale all’epoca, ma in un segreto aperto aveva una relazione con il drammaturgo Michael Mac Liammoir. Il ricercatore Denis Staunton ha detto che il mio c liammoir piaceva "Uomini più grandi e più ruvidi ”(sono in quella categoria, in termini moderni siamo chiamati Bears!). Apparentemente questa era l’attrazione iniziale per Eoin o Duffy.
La relazione è stata documentata da coloro che erano al conoscenza ma attraverso riferimenti velati o sottigliezza. Eoin o Duffy avrebbe raccolto Mac Liammoir in un’auto blindata dall’Abbazia.
Mac Liammoir ha continuato a avere una relazione con Hilton Edwards e per molto tempo è stata una luce leader nella recitazione irlandese e lui e il suo partner hanno ricevuto la libertà della città nel 1973. Eoin O Duffy, d’altra parte, morì di alcolismo nel 1944, avendo precedentemente tentato di accogliersi alle spie naziste.
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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
Bears are just ugly fat man from what I have seen.
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.
Stronger together. Why is fascism so gay, seriously? Such a common story. I think it has something to do with not wanting a family to put at risk of your political life. I dunno.
He was dating that rapper from Seattle?