Sinn Fein / IRA, being hard leftists,
like to call their opponents "fascists".
And indeed
there is some truth in it,
as regards the hard-core loyalists at least.
But SF-IRA are not the people to criticise.
SF-IRA supported the Nazis in WW2
(the real ones, not just rhetorical ones),
they planned to help a German invasion of Ireland,
and they would no doubt
have been installed as a quisling government
had Germany occupied Ireland.
Operation Green
- Hitler's plan for the Nazi invasion of Ireland.
Plan Kathleen / The Artus Plan
- The IRA-supported plan for the Nazi invasion of Northern Ireland.
The IRA supported the Nazis,
and the Nazis supported the IRA.
The IRA helped the Luftwaffe bomb Belfast and Derry.
Hitler would of course have done to Ireland
what he did to every other country.
In the Wannsee Conference notes of Jan 1942,
Ireland's 4,000 Jews were listed
for extermination.
No doubt Irish quislings would have helped in this,
as quislings helped in every other country.
Luckily, the IRA failed in their plans,
and the Jews of Ireland
were not exterminated.
The IRA has still not apologised for this.
The Belfast Blitz
- 200 German aircraft bombed Belfast in 1941.
1,000 dead, and half the city wrecked.
And the IRA helped them.
"in July 1940 the IRA leadership issued a statement [which] made clear that if
"German forces should land in Ireland, they will land ... as friends and liberators of the Irish people".
The public was assured that Germany desired neither
"territory nor ... economic penetration" in Ireland but only that it should play its part in the
"reconstruction"
of a "free and progressive Europe". The Third Reich was also praised as the "energising force"
of European politics and the "guardian" of national freedom.
...
In August [1940] the IRA confidently predicted that with the assistance of
"our victorious European allies"
Ireland would "achieve absolute independence within the next few months"."
In the illegal War News, the IRA's main publication,
"Satisfaction was expressed that the "cleansing fire"
of the German armies was driving the Jews from Europe.
...
War News condemned the arrival in Ireland of "so-called Jewish refugees",
along with unspecified numbers of "Albanian, Abyssinian, Mongolian [and] Tartars"."
Cumann na mBan saw the Nazis as
"fighting Ireland's battle and the battle of all oppressed nations within the empire".
As
Frank McGahon says
about the IRA's support for the Germans:
"England's difficulty would certainly have been Ireland's opportunity:
Ireland's opportunity to live under the Nazi jackboot."
A past we'd rather forget
by Henry McDonald
sums it up:
"In the 1940s, the IRA was allied to one of the most evil regimes in human history.
Had they succeeded in their goal of uniting Ireland on the back of a Nazi victory,
every man, woman and child would have become vassals of the Nazi empire.
And, as Micheal Burleigh emphasises .. Hitler planned to eliminate the Jews of Ireland
as part of his maniacal project to destroy entirely the Jewish people.
Yet this collaboration with Nazism is rarely mentioned in the traditional nationalist
narratives of the twentieth century."
SF-IRA supported the Nazis.
The unionists fought the Nazis.
Explain that, Sinn Fein.
Not content with collaborating with the Nazis in WW2,
in 1987 in Enniskillen the IRA
bombed
a memorial service
to the allies who died fighting Nazism in WW2,
killing 11 people.
Search for more
here
and
here.
Viva la Quinta Brigada,
song by
Christy Moore
celebrating
Frank Ryan's
fight against Franco
in the Spanish Civil War.
See lyrics.
Christy Moore doesn't mean it to be,
but unfortunately this is another memorial to a Nazi collaborator.
Even if we just stick to the Spanish Civil War,
this song is terribly simplistic.
He describes the war as:
"Truth and love against the force of evil;
Brotherhood against the fascist clan."
Franco was a fascist dictator and ally of Hitler who
committed atrocities.
But
the Spanish Republicans included communists and allies of Stalin
who committed atrocities
such as killing 7,000 clergy.
I would not support either side.
He attacks
the Irish who fought for Franco:
"Many Irishmen heard the call of Franco;
Joined Hitler and Mussolini too.
Propaganda from the pulpit and newspapers;
Helped O'Duffy to enlist his crew.
The word came from Maynooth, "support the Nazis".
The men of cloth failed again;
When the Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire;
As they sailed beneath the swastika to Spain."
Yes, the church was wrong to support fascists,
but missing is the fact that the fascists' enemies were
torturing and killing priests and nuns, and burning churches.
Notice also how
he makes out that they were fighting for Nazi Germany.
In fact, the only Irishmen who actually fought for the Nazis
were the IRA republicans,
including .. Frank Ryan.
Unfortunately for Christy Moore,
Frank Ryan's later behaviour makes this song
a tribute to a Nazi collaborator.
In response to the above description of
Seán McCool
as a Nazi collaborator,
Ruairi McCool at
CENSORED@hotmail.com
sent me the email below.
Seán McCool was from Co.Donegal,
where he was involved in the GAA.
Ruairi McCool
is presumably a relation of his.
Anyway, the
X-Originating-IP: field
in the email header shows
he connected to the Internet through
86.46.154.CENSORED
which is Eircom in Sligo.
Instead of providing evidence that his relative did not in fact collaborate with Nazi Germany,
he writes:
Mr Humphrys,
How dare you label great warriors of Ireland Nazis!
You don't deserve to live you Jewish bastard!
Eat shit! I'm a hero if I murder 100 Palestinians, am I?!
While one might understand an emotional reaction to having a relative criticised,
a death threat is completely out of order.
I have referred the above email to the gardai.
He seems to deny that his relative was a Nazi collaborator. But this is fact, not opinion:
From pp.220-222 of
1997 edn
of The Secret Army:
When Seán McCool became Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1942,
"McCool and McNamee were tireless and even took up the German thread again. On February 28, 1942, German Sergeant
Gunther Schuetz escaped from Mountjoy. ... he disappeared down the old Republican pipeline to appear .. at Mrs Caítlín Brugha's house. ... McCool established direct contact with the Brughas and plans were begun to get Schuetz out of the country on a fishing boat with a shopping list of IRA needs."
(McCool was captured in the middle of these plans.)
Of course, it is no surprise that McCool helped Schütz
and had contact with Nazi Germany.
Every single Chief-of-Staff of the IRA from 1938 to 1944
collaborated with Nazi Germany.
They only stopped because the Nazis lost the war,
not because anybody thought collaborating with the Nazis was wrong.
I also had republican relatives who supported the Nazis
and even worked for them.
It was said that one of my relatives spent the day in tears when Hitler died.
But unlike Ruairi McCool,
I feel no need to defend them.
They made their own decisions, and it is their shame not mine.
Seán McCool's collaboration with Nazi Germany in 1942.
From p.221 of The Secret Army,
J. Bowyer Bell,
1997 edn.
Statue of
Nazi collaborator
Sean Russell,
Fairview Park, Dublin.
This disgusting statue was erected in 1951.
1,000 people - IRA, Sinn Fein
and Cumann na mBan -
marched to
the unveiling.
The ceremony to honour the Nazi collaborator
began with a decade of the Rosary in Irish.
The IRA man and playwright
Brendan Behan
was one of the attendees.
In 2003,
Mary Lou McDonald
made a speech
honouring
Sean Russell
at the statue.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre
called for it to be left
unrestored as a symbol of Ireland's "shame".
They said:
"It's a blot on the history of Ireland, but blots have to see the public light."
They described the incident as
"an opportunity for Ireland to confront its past".
They said:
"We're not iconoclasts
but I think the destruction of something like this has a meaning,
and we would ask for it to be left there as a lesson of what Irish neutrality was all about."
Sadly, this did not happen.
A new statue to the Nazi ally
was erected by the
National Graves Association
in 2009.
Further attack, late July 2009.
Nazi flags painted on statue.
I don't disagree with the sentiments,
but proper legal methods should be used to demolish this statue,
not vandalism.
The shameful statue of the Nazi collaborator Sean Russell, Fairview Park, Dublin.
Henry McDonald, 9 May 2004, says:
"Dublin remains the only city in democratic Europe where a figurine still stands
in homage to a man who openly collaborated with the Nazis."
Even worse, as
Tony Allwright
points out, this is
"the only statue in Dublin to an Irish volunteer killed during World War 2"
- a stooge who
died on a Nazi U-boat!
This statue should be removed by the state and destroyed.
Note I do not support non-state action against this statue
(or any other Irish memorial to a Nazi collaborator).
I believe in the rule of law, not the rule of direct action.
Photo 2009 from here.
Kevin Myers above points out that:
"Irish lives lost in WWII probably exceed the death toll for all domestic political violence in 20th century".
And yet there is no real memorial to them.
Apparently, fully
two-thirds of the Irish Army
of 1939
joined the Allies.
The IRA and its supporters
disgraced themselves forever in WW2.
And it's not like this is ancient history.
SF-IRA have continued this tradition
of opposing the democracies in war:
They
opposed the democracy of Britain
and supported the imperialist military junta of Argentina
in the
Falklands War
in 1982.
They opposed (and still oppose)
the democracy of Israel
in its war against
Islamic fascism (ongoing since 1947),
and they have openly supported and even collaborated with Israel's Islamofascist enemies.
They opposed (and still oppose)
the democracies of America and Britain in the
war on Iraqi fascism
since 2003.
It is clear that SF-IRA
will never stand with the democracies,
no matter who they fight.
It is clear that,
in a similar situation to WW2 in the future,
SF-IRA would behave in more or less the same way.
The fight for human freedom
- Sinn Fein have supported the enemy in
all three wars
- World War 2, World War 3 and World War 4.
Rudolph J. Rummel
estimates
(see
here
and
here)
that Argentina's military dictatorship
killed 20,000 people
in democide, 1976-82.
Margaret Thatcher did a great service to the world
(and to Argentina)
in helping to bring down this regime.
Remember that SF-IRA
supported this regime.
The IRSP, 1982:
"We must also salute the sentiments of the Argentinian people
who stood up to Britain and fought for the Malvinas."
Lessons From The Falklands
by Mark Steyn,
January 2003
- "The Falklands War is the decisive war of the last quarter-century, if
only because it's the one the world
- like Galtieri - never expected.
It marks the dividing line between the free world's territorial losses
of the Sixties and Seventies and its gains in the Eighties and
Nineties."
The long history of dodgy Irish republican sympathy
for anti-semites
continues today with Irish republican support
for Palestinian and other Islamist terror.
Of course SFIRA has
a range of trendy reasons
why they support the Palestinian anti-semites today.
They claim it is nothing to do with anti-semitism,
and for most of them that is probably true.
But it's all a bit embarrassing given SFIRA's history.
IRA-PLO cooperation: A long, cozy relationship, Sean Gannon, Apr 7, 2009.
He notes that the IRA has helped the Islamists,
and its technology is still helping them today:
"recently, Britain has claimed that IRA-developed bomb-making technology passed on to Hizbullah has been used against its forces in Iraq."
Chris Gaskin, a pro-SFIRA republican blogger, openly supports Islamist attacks on Israel, Dec 2008:
"The PLO and other Palestinian Resistance organisations should avenge this attack with utmost severity."
He approvingly quotes an
anonymous Dublin republican
who says:
"it is to be hoped that all Palestinian resistance groups will retaliate against this murderous aggression".
(The latter openly supports the
Iraqi resistance.)
Gaskin tries to
back out of it
in the comments, saying he didn't mean the Islamists should attack civilians
(as if Islamists even recognise the concept of a civilian Jew).
He is like
Tom Paulin
saying Israeli settlers should be shot dead,
and then being surprised when they shoot Israeli settler children dead.
So if Gaskin somehow supports Palestinian terror
but does not support attacks on civilians,
maybe he could construct a list of Palestinian terror attacks over the last 20 years that he supports,
and a list of ones he opposes,
and then we could understand his bizarre mind better.
If he ever writes such a list,
tell me here.
Gaskin is a socialist
and supports the dictatorship in Cuba.
He declares his support for Obama.
Other republican support for tyranny
In 1982 the INLA
bombed the Mount Gabriel radar station in Co. Cork,
which they claimed was providing help to NATO
in the Cold War
against the Soviet Union.
The 32 CSM / RIRA
sought links
to Saddam Hussein's genocidal tyranny in Iraq.
The 32 CSM / RIRA
support the Islamist butchers of Beslan.
They celebrate the Islamic butcher of children
Shamil Basayev
on their site, and carry releases from "Chechen Mujahideen".
Unbelievably, "May Allah bless his Jihad!" appears on the 32 CSM site.
More here:
"The 32 County Sovereignty Movement .. sends its sincere condolences
to the comrades, friends and family of Chechen resistance leader
Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev."
They praise "his martyrdom" for Allah.
Why supposed "marxists" are supporting reactionary religious fanatics is a mystery.
You would think that for once SF-IRA would decline to protest,
given the good work the troops are doing fighting Islamic religious fascism
abroad.
But no.
One of the Sinn Fein men defended his protest at the liberation of foreign Muslims:
"We have a right to show our opposition against the oppression of Britain here,
in Afghanistan and Iraq."
What a disgusting political party.
Republican Sinn Fein protest a Catholic performing on a record for the brave troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, Oct 2008.
"Republican Sinn Féin hit out at the reality television show "X Factor" for cynically using an Irish contestant to promote British Imperial misadventures
...
A spokesperson for the organisation said that it was morally repugnant that producers would pressurise contestants into endorsing foreign occupation.
... contestants including County Derry's Eoghan Quigg were forced to perform a song in tribute to those who have invaded Ireland, Afghanistan and Iraq, and countless other countries, and displaced and murdered the native populace."
It is clear that SF-IRA and its offshoots have not changed since World War Two.
30,000 people at homecoming for British troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, Nov 2008.
Nice to see a proper welcome for the British troops
fighting Islamic religious fascism.
More videos:
Communist butcher and tyrant
Ho Chi Minh
quoted
at SF-IRA protest against British Iraq troops homecoming, Nov 2008.
From here.
Open support for the Iraqi Islamic religious fascist "resistance"
at
éirígí
dissident republican protest against British Iraq troops homecoming, Nov 2008.
From here.
Also here
and here.
"Oh here's to Adolph Hitler,
Who made the Britons squeal,
Sure before the fight is ended
They will dance an Irish reel."
- The IRA's War News,
21 Nov 1940,
applauding
Nazi Germany's conquest of Europe.
"Israel is without doubt one of the most abhorrent and despicable regimes on the planet."
- Sinn Féin International Affairs and "Human Rights" spokesperson
Aengus Ó Snodaigh,
30 June 2006
(also here).
song by
Christy Moore
celebrating
Frank Ryan's
fight against Franco
in the Spanish Civil War.
See lyrics.
Attacks on the new statue:
Since 1995.
