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  • 05-12-2005 8:00pm
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    jezza
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    Anyone know anything about the " blueshirts during th spanish civil war" i tried to google it..


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    Funkstard
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    Not much, but I know that Eoin O'Duffy went to fight for Franco, and he tried to organise an Irish brigade to go with him. Here's what I found on http://en.wikipedia.org:

    "The Blueshirt movement had begun to disintegrate also, so much so that by 1935 the organisation no longer existed. In June 1935 O'Duffy launched the National Corporate Party. The following year O'Duffy organised an Irish Brigade to fight for Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Despite the declaration by the Irish Government that participation in the war was illegal 700 of O'Duffy's followers went to Spain. The Irish contingent refused to fight the Basques for Franco, seeing parallels between their recent struggle and Basque aspirations. They saw their primary role in Spain as fighting communism, rather than defending Spain's territorial integrity."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueshirts


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    [Deleted User]
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    eoin o duffy had absolutely no effect on spanish civil war!


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    phantom_lord
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    Deleted User wrote:
    eoin o duffy had absolutely no effect on spanish civil war!



    little effect maybe, but he was there.


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