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Irish Fascists and the Yanks
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MODERN THOUGHT
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6 / 1993 |
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Herb Greer
Herb Greer is an American writer and playwright who lives in
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Fascism is becoming ominously fashionable again in Europe. On the continent it is manifested principally as violent xenophobia. But a more classic version has operated for more than twenty years in the United Kingdom. It is a cabal dedicated not only to the brutal hatred of foreigners, but to the exploitation of Jacobin rhetoric about human rights while consistently violating those rights; to the aim of a dictatorial one-party state; to the use of murder and mutilation of dissenters from its vicious brand of politics; to the dehumanization of its opponents; to a callous indifference to ordinary civilian life, expressed in random bombings; and to the ascent to power through illegal violence; and to an irredentism, based on mendacious history, that recalls the 1930s campaign of Hitler to recover the Sudetenland.
This is, of course, a description of Ulster's Provisional IRA/Sinn Fein, which exist together as two arms on one day. The most remarkable aspect of this murderous conspiracy is that it thrives on generous emotional and moral support from the United States--specifically from a blockhead, ignorant, and vicious section of the Irish American community, which organizes and propagandizes along the same irredentist lines (and sometimes in almost the same words) as the 1930s pro-Hitler German-American Bund.
Relatively few Americans (or, in fact, Britons) know or care much about the troubles in Ulster. This general ignorance and indifference has guaranteed a transatlantic success for IRA propaganda, both at a popular level and in the media, which tend to reflect the IRA version of Anglo-Irish history. It goes something like this: In the twelfth century a brutal English or Saxon invading force attacked and occupied a United Celtic Irish Nation, which has ever since been fighting to free itself from British domination. After World War I a partial victory was obtained with the eventual establishment of an Irish Republic. But Ulster remained, and still does under the Saxon heel, preventing the reuniting of Ireland into a nation once again. The Provisional IRA is the latest band of freedom fighters in this eight hundred-year struggle.
THE 800-YEAR STRUGGLE MYTH
The eight hundred-year struggle myth was actually invented in the nineteenth century by Irish nationalists, and almost every single aspect of it is a lie. Americans who speak of the ancient Irish nation are uninformed. Nationalism in Ireland, as in the rest of Europe, was primarily a nineteenth-century phenomenon. Seven centuries ago, the island was a kaleidoscopic pattern of
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