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Thread #124569   Message #2752431
Posted By: Young Buchan
25-Oct-09 - 01:05 PM
Thread Name: An Irish anti-fascist song
Subject: RE: An Irish anti-fascist song
"I very much doubt if you could find any indication that any of them [Duffy's Blueshirts] wanted Partition"

'Wanted' partition might be a tad strong, but they certainly ACCEPTED it. Duffy/Cosgrave's Fine Gael were pro-Treaty followers of Collins, and at the throats of Fine Fail and the other anti-Partitionists.