Blueshirts
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blueshirts-178-7551655
title:
Blueshirts
text:
The Army Comrades Association (ACA), later the National Guard, then Young Ireland and finally League of Youth, but best known by the nickname the Blueshirts, was a paramilitary organisation in the Irish Free State, founded as the Army Comrades Association in Dublin on 9 February 1932. The group provided physical protection for political groups such as Cumann na nGaedheal from intimidation and attacks by the IRA. Some former members went on to fight for the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War a
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Irish Free State paramilitary organisation
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueshirts
date created:
2003-08-01T23:31:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T19:12:36Z
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13
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