Caller 19

No problem. Delighted to be here. Thanks very much, Robert.

No problem. Delighted to be here. Thanks very much, Robert.

No problem. Delighted to be here. Thanks very much, Robert.

Yeah. Sadly, as long as fascism has existed since Mussolini's March on Rome and his political rise, we have had fascist groups here of one sort or another. We've had fascist groups in Ireland that were pro-British in politics, fascist groups in Ireland that were pro-Irish or Irish independence. You know, obviously we were neutral during World War II.

Yeah. Sadly, as long as fascism has existed since Mussolini's March on Rome and his political rise, we have had fascist groups here of one sort or another. We've had fascist groups in Ireland that were pro-British in politics, fascist groups in Ireland that were pro-Irish or Irish independence. You know, obviously we were neutral during World War II.

Yeah. Sadly, as long as fascism has existed since Mussolini's March on Rome and his political rise, we have had fascist groups here of one sort or another. We've had fascist groups in Ireland that were pro-British in politics, fascist groups in Ireland that were pro-Irish or Irish independence. You know, obviously we were neutral during World War II.

We weren't occupied by Nazi Germany or anything like that. We did have one very big fascist group here in the 1930s, the Blue Shirts, who were

We weren't occupied by Nazi Germany or anything like that. We did have one very big fascist group here in the 1930s, the Blue Shirts, who were

We weren't occupied by Nazi Germany or anything like that. We did have one very big fascist group here in the 1930s, the Blue Shirts, who were

uh extremely violent and got 68 members of parliament elected they were the main political opposition they were kind of the largest non-governing fascist organization in the world per capita but as you said irish republicanism has kind of inoculated us against a lot of the far right stuff we'd have seen in britain and germany and france in the 90s um because you

uh extremely violent and got 68 members of parliament elected they were the main political opposition they were kind of the largest non-governing fascist organization in the world per capita but as you said irish republicanism has kind of inoculated us against a lot of the far right stuff we'd have seen in britain and germany and france in the 90s um because you

uh extremely violent and got 68 members of parliament elected they were the main political opposition they were kind of the largest non-governing fascist organization in the world per capita but as you said irish republicanism has kind of inoculated us against a lot of the far right stuff we'd have seen in britain and germany and france in the 90s um because you

You know, while the conflict was going on in the north of Ireland, basically, if you were an angry young man with very strong patriotic feelings who was given towards political violence, you would probably end up in the provisional IRA. And their politics were very left wing and internationalist. I mean, I remember going into their political wing, Sinn Féin's bookshop. in Dublin in the 1990s.

You know, while the conflict was going on in the north of Ireland, basically, if you were an angry young man with very strong patriotic feelings who was given towards political violence, you would probably end up in the provisional IRA. And their politics were very left wing and internationalist. I mean, I remember going into their political wing, Sinn Féin's bookshop. in Dublin in the 1990s.

You know, while the conflict was going on in the north of Ireland, basically, if you were an angry young man with very strong patriotic feelings who was given towards political violence, you would probably end up in the provisional IRA. And their politics were very left wing and internationalist. I mean, I remember going into their political wing, Sinn Féin's bookshop. in Dublin in the 1990s.

And it was all pictures of, you know, Yessir Arafat. And it was pictures of Nelson Mandela and like the Zapatistas. And, you know, it was very much about Irish independence being an anti-colonial struggle. Yeah.

And it was all pictures of, you know, Yessir Arafat. And it was pictures of Nelson Mandela and like the Zapatistas. And, you know, it was very much about Irish independence being an anti-colonial struggle. Yeah.

And it was all pictures of, you know, Yessir Arafat. And it was pictures of Nelson Mandela and like the Zapatistas. And, you know, it was very much about Irish independence being an anti-colonial struggle. Yeah.

You do, of course, get like on the opposite side of that, on kind of the loyalist pro-British side in the North, you did get as kind of reaction to that pro-British paramilitaries, the Ulster Volunteer Force, the UDA, the Ulster Defence Association, the Ulster Volunteer Force, the UVF.

You do, of course, get like on the opposite side of that, on kind of the loyalist pro-British side in the North, you did get as kind of reaction to that pro-British paramilitaries, the Ulster Volunteer Force, the UDA, the Ulster Defence Association, the Ulster Volunteer Force, the UVF.