Blueshirt not Brownshirt – Irish neo-Nazis

Screenshot of Justin Barrett from YouTube video by Clann Eireann

At any public demo, there are political opportunists hoping to distract, or muddy the main message of the marchers.

Last Saturday in Dublin (26/4/25) there was a peaceful, monster demonstration against our government’s mindless migrant policies. Mainstream media lazily cast those 20,000+ protestors as “far right”. However, the real “far right” were hiding in plain sight.

On the fringes of the pre-march gathering was a small group of neo-Nazis – Clann Éireann by name. Headed by Justin Barrett – they attempted to make their pygmy presence felt. A couple of Gardai (policemen) “had words” with Barrett, wannabe nationalist dictator, possibly “advising” them to not make a nuisance of themselves.

Ezra Levant, a counter-narrative conservative & Canadian citizen journalist saw that event. He approached Barrett. Apparently Levant didn’t know who Justin Barrett, founder of Clann Éireann was – or what his street-corner gang represented.

While Levant is excellent at political exposés in his home country, he doesn’t seem to have done enough research about the current Irish zeitgeist. Had he come better academically prepared with prescient political facts, his verbal joust with the Judenfrie demagogue would have been far more effective.

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Here is a snippet of the dialogue from their exchanges, which centered on anti-immigration, antisemitism, Christian blood libel about Jesus’ crucifixion and 1930s Irish fascism.

Barrett: “you should go away because you’re a Jew…”

(How did he know that? Levant never referred to this religion.)

Levant: “that’s so extreme…”

Barrett: “It’s not at all extreme…”

Levant: “I think you’re an embarrassment to Ireland….”

Barrett: “…I don’t give a damn what Jews think of me….”

And later in the video Barrett says: “National Socialism knew how to deal with people like you.” *

Unfortunately Levant lost the anti-semitic argument by throwing in personalized insults. Also his lazy tropes about the “feds” – an American appellation, is irrelevant to the Irish police forces.

However, he was almost on target when referencing that Barrett was making “brown shirt” fascist political statements. The more historically-accurate Irish term – “blueshirts” – might have landed a better metaphorical punch to Barrett’s smug social nationalism.

Levant didn’t seem to realize the existence of Ireland’s unrequited love-affair with German Aryans in the 1930s.

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Blueshirts, not Brownshirts.

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O’Duffy Blue with activists of the Blue Shirt Movement, 1933 (public domain)

One of the Blueshirts’ manifesto ‘objectives’ was to ‘awaken…discipline, zeal and patriotic realism which will… serve the people efficiently in the economic and social spheres.’

The Blueshirts were cosplay fascists; mere patriotic conservatives with pious Catholic Celtic aspirations. Some modern historians consider them para-fascists, more “angry rural conservatives” than ‘effective’ antisemitic Aryan urbanites. The ‘Blueshirt’ movement morphed into various other fringe movements, eventually becoming a legitimate parliamentary party, called Fine Gael. (1)

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Adolf Hitler was the “greatest leader of all time…” – Justin Barrett

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In a recent video Barrett unveiled a new ‘protection unit’ of his party called An Sciath Náisiúnta (The National Shield). He said that the “protection unit” would act within the law but would also be ready to defend itself “with as much violence as is necessary”. (2)

In 2002, Barrett apparently attended meetings by the neo-fascist National Democratic Party (NDP) in Germany and Forza Nuova in Italy. He later claimed that he was unaware of both groups’ neo-Nazi links. He also seems to have fraternal links with the Nordic Resistance Movement – a transnational organization bringing together neo-Nazi activists from across Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland. NRM has violently attacked political opponents, protestors & journalists. (3)

Barrett also appeared on Nordic Frontier, an English-language podcast hosted by the Nordic Resistance Movement in July 2024. On that podcast (number 285) Barrett sneeringly dismissed the Holocaust and expressing hackneyed anti-semitic tropes about Jewish control of the media, Hollywood, banking, etc. (4)

The Irish mainstream media need to stop the paranoid painting of all anti-migrant movements as racist bogeymen. Instead, they need to properly analyze the antisemitism of truly malevolent movements, like Clann Eireann.

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Sources:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueshirts
2. https://www.sundayworld.com/news/irish-news/far-right-agitator-justin-barrett-hails-hitler-as-greatest-leader-of-all-time/a2028588943.html

(3) https://www.thephoenix.ie/article/justin-barrett-rides-on-nrm/

(4) If you have three hours, twenty five minutes to spare (!) – listen to anti-semite, Irish extreme nationalist, Justin Barrett on Nordic Frontier number 285.

https://rumble.com/v53tl17-nordic-frontier-285-justin-barrett-of-clann-ireann.html

Clann Eireann on X express condolences on the death of Bishop Richard Williamson, English traditionalist Catholic bishop and Holocaust denier

https://x.com/ClannEireannIE/status/1885023191078256874

Richard Williamson (bishop) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Williamson_(bishop)

* Video of exchanges between Justin Barrett & Ezra Levant

https://youtu.be/M3Grbpv_l5k?si=OyAAWo55AUq9txHY