Movement for a Socialist Republic
Socialist Republic1976The Southern state and its partiesThe Southern state and its parties
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BS seeeesssees canes ssee same eeeeecon The Secretary, = soo eee osonenee oneeee ee ie ee onaee es & Pret! * seawesnece cs eccuseehesssserrnaes stone seeeeese* oeesae ened M.S.R. 38 Clanawley Road, Du blin 5. gains it had expected in the local elections of June 1935, In September the Blueshirts split between those (under O'Duffy) who wanted a more extreme, interventionist policy, and the constituionalist majority (following Cosgrave) who feared such policy's elactoral coupterproductivity. Fine Gael became less openly Fascist (though Fascism was never removed formally). Finally, in 1936, the Blueshirts disappeared after another split, Some joined tt O'Duffy group to-go to Spain to fight for reaction there. A mass movernent (the Christia Front) gave fascism hope for a revival. Howeve this resulted less gloriously than had been intended, A sordid dispute over the handling o the monies raised, discredited the immediate prospects for Irish fascism.
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IRISH SECTION OF THE FOURTH IN fERNAT IONAL 1 WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE M.S.R.