أحرقهم! تاريخ الفاشية واليمين المتطرف

In November 2023, the Dublin riots shook Ireland and the entire world. It was sparked by a knife attack by a migrant on three children. Inflammatory rumors spread online within minutes. Parts of the city's north center were destroyed, cars and buses were set on fire, and protesters wreaked havoc in the streets for hours. Until recently, Ireland prided itself on surviving the wave of far-right populism and xenophobia sweeping Europe today. But this complacency was met with a harsh challenge. In Burn Them!, Padraig O. Ruark explores the long history that led to this pivotal moment. The author reveals rampant anti-Semitism among the Irish political elite in the 1920s and 1930s, the determined efforts of Mosley and other British fascists to expand their movement into Northern Ireland, the IRA's alliance with Nazi Germany in the 1940s, and the many militant Irish Catholic anti-communist movements that were on the verge of sliding into fascism. It tells the story of such bizarre entities as the "Fascio di Dublin", the Dublin branch of Mussolini's Fascist Party, and the Irish wing of the "British Fascists" movement founded by Miss Rutha Linthorne-Orman. It also takes a fresh look at the openly fascist Irish Blue Shirt movement, an offshoot and ally of the early Fine Gael party, whose supporters' statements about Jews are chilling today. Many of its supporters later became pillars of the Irish political and cultural establishment. The Ailtieri na Hāísergi (Architects of the Resurrection), a post-war Catholic and nationalist sect, was in many ways a harbinger of the contemporary Irish far right.