Irish Newspaper Archives - #OTD 23.11.1936 Irish Brigade to fight for General Franco In August 1936 General Eoin O'Duffy, the former Garda commissioner and leader of the Blueshirts, announced the formation of
Dr Robert Bohan on Twitter: "With the ban, CnG & the Blueshirts merged to form Fine Gael (1933) with O'Duffy as president. By now the Blueshirts had been rechristened the National Guard.
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