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In the original dustjacket, solid in blue (naturally) cloth with titles in gold to spine. Apart from the letter M written on the spine externally, there are no other marks, damage or inscriptions noted. Not ex library. First edition, 1970, Gill and Macmillan Books, Dublin.
A seminal study on Irish politics in the 1930's and the rise of the crypto fascist Blueshirt movement, ( although this being Ireland the members were more concerned with Catholic consevatism and opposing both Republican De Valera and ' Godless Communism' than being a fasist party in the Italian or Nazi German mode)
The Blueshirts were a quasi-fascist organisation founded in 1932 following de Valera's first election victory. They adopted the style and some of the substance of European fascist movements. Although relatively short-lived, they were one of the founding strands in what became the Fine Gael party. Maurice Manning's definitive history chronicles the rise and fall of the Blueshirts against the social and political background of Ireland in the late 1920s and 1930s- a fascinating period where democatic transfer of power was not always thought to be assured. The key work on the movement by a FG Senator and academic.
Previous owner's name on the title page.
