Blue Shirt

Blue Shirt

▪ Irish fascist movement
Spanish  Camisa Azul,  

      member of a 20th-century Irish fascist movement founded by the former Irish president William Cosgrave. Gen. Eoin O'Duffy (O'Duffy, Eoin), former commissioner of the Irish National guards, took the movement's group of 600 men to Spain in 1936. There the Blue Shirts trained at Cáceres and fought with the Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War.

* * *


Universalium. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно решить контрольную?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • blue shirt — noun : one who wears a blue shirt; especially : a professional fire fighter …   Useful english dictionary

  • blue shirt — shirt made of blue fabric …   English contemporary dictionary

  • National Blue Shirt Minutemen — Flag. National Blue Shirt Minutemen was an American anti fascist organisation of New York from 1936. The National Blue Shirt Minutemen claims a membership of 10,000 around Brooklyn.[1] The National Blue Shirt Mi …   Wikipedia

  • blue shirt type of guy — Everyday English Slang in Ireland n 1930 s quasi fascist group …   English dialects glossary

  • Blue — This article is about the colour. For other uses, see Blue (disambiguation). Blue …   Wikipedia

  • Shirt — Charvet shirt from the 1930s, Norsk Folkemeuseum, Oslo. A shirt is a cloth garment for the upper body. Originally an undergarment worn exclusively by men, it has become, in American English, a catch all term for almost any garment other than… …   Wikipedia

  • Blue Shirts Society — Not to be confused with Irish Blueshirts. For other uses, see Blueshirts. Part of a series on Fascism …   Wikipedia

  • Blue Shirts — The term Blue Shirts , when used by itself, can refer to several organizations.Politics* The American National Blue Shirt Minutemen * The British Fascisti * The Canadian Parti national social chrétien * The Chinese Blue Shirts Society * The… …   Wikipedia

  • blue-collar — /ˈblu kɒlə / (say blooh koluh) adjective belonging or relating to workers involved in some sort of manual labour, as distinct from clerical or professional workers (who are sometimes referred to as white collar). {from the blue shirt… …  

  • shirt dress — noun 1. A straight dress with a collar like a shirt s, resembling an elongated shirt 2. A shirtwaister (US) • • • Main Entry: ↑shirt * * * shirt dress, a shirtwaist dress; shirtwaister: »... pale blue Osmaline shirt dress, the bib front hand… …   Useful english dictionary

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”