Jhaens 🏳️🌈From author Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc:
'Burn Them Out! - A History Of Fascism And The Far Right In Ireland '
Chapter: 'Fine Gael And The Blue Shirts
'In the autumn of 1932 violent clashes between the IRA and members of the ACA became increasingly common. [...]
In the wake of such violence branches of the ACA were encouraged to start boxing classes but were discouraged from other immoral activities such as playing cards unless the card games were 'outside among non-members whom they might be able to convert or influence'. United Ireland [newspaper] encouraged street violence and advised its readers to pay close attention to Mussolini's great Italian Experiment and to learn from it whatever they could that might be of use when the Blue Shirts came to power. The newspaper also encouraged its readers to purchase James Strachey Barnes's 'Universal Aspects Of Fashism'. The newspaper also denounced Séan MacEntee, the Minister for Finance, as the 'Minister for Jazz'. This was at a time when the Catholic Church was leading a 'Down with Jazz!' crusade that condemned the African-American music as a 'pagan', 'jungle music' that had supposedly been introduced by Jews as part of a communist plot to destroy Catholicism with 'immoral dancing'.
History, a constant fountain of joys and horrors...