Greenshirts

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The Greenshirts was the name used for followers of Eoin O'Duffy's openly fascist National Corporate Party following the split from Fine Gael. In 1936 O'Duffy led a volunteer Irish Brigade for Franco in the Spanish Civil War and retired on his return. Without him both the Greenshirts and National Corporate Party faded away. Fine Gael became one of Ireland's main democratic political parties.

Note: The Greenshirts are different from the better known Blueshirts which was the name used by O'Duffy's followers before the split in Fine Gael though it's worth remembering most of the Blueshirts later became Greenshirts.

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Blueshirts
National Corporate Party
Eoin O'Duffy