#Otd 1933: Cummann na nGaedheal, the Centre Party & the National Guard, the “Blueshirts”, joined forces to form Fine Gael! Means “Family (or Tribe) of the Irish”. https://t.co/4fosEIDW8Q pic.twitter.com/IkCTk1Zjuh
— Irish History Bitesize! (@lorraineelizab6) September 8, 2020
1933.
Ireland’s rump hard right-wing, including actual Hitler-salutin’ fascists, converge to create Fine Gael with hilarious consequences.
Thanks brown suits.
FIGHT!
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Lazy stereotyping. Implies that other political parties were(are) some kind of left wing radical outfits.
Some DNA though, in fairness.
Irish Politics DNA:
FineGael = Facist blueshirts
Fianna Fail = Corrupt incompetent chancers
Sinn Fein = murdering terrorists
PBP = inept commies
Greens: ineffectual numpties
Renua: God bothering racist biggots.
Labour: Who?
All authoritarian to some extent, the absence of Liberal politics is glaring
The civil war destroyed emotional equilibrium and left the country with a bipartisan mediocrity for decades.
The state has and is largely left with Hard and medium hard Catholic factions
They haven’t changed a bit
Ok few more with boobs – who is actually supposed to have boobs I mean
But that’s about the height of it
Same as they ever were if you ask me
Ok, maybe today they’re a bit more conniving and sneaky
back then they were proud of their self entitlement and self importance, and made no secret of it
t’was to be expected they would overtly lord it over everyone not them, squireen like
Now they try to style it up behind polite liberalism and quirky social media messaging
and pretend to be abhorred when one of their Mummys acts the bint at a schools rubgy match
but deep down they’re all still thinking that we’ll all be working for them one day
Great headline in fairness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Intelligence_Department_%E2%80%93_Oriel_House