SF-IRA support for tyranny - IRA support for the Nazis

IRA support for the Nazis

Sinn Fein / IRA people bizarrely have a self-image that their bigoted, sectarian, reactionary, violent group, with a paramilitary wing, are some kind of "anti-fascists". So they really hate it when you remind people what their organisation did in WW2.

The IRA supported the Nazis in WW2 (the real ones, not just rhetorical ones). They ran safe houses for Nazi spies, aided Nazi intelligence, and even helped Nazi bombers. They supported Nazi Germany in print, and called for its victory in Europe. They wrote poems to Hitler, and threatened death to anyone who aided the Allied war effort. They planned to bring about a Nazi German invasion of Ireland, and would no doubt have been installed as a quisling government had Germany occupied Ireland.

As a group of violent fanatics devoted to hatred of Britain, SF/IRA has always been sympathetic to the enemies of Britain and the enemies of Western democracies. The IRA's support for the Nazis is the worst example, but there are others.

The Military Channel, 2011.See parts two and three





The IRA supported the Nazis, and the Nazis supported the IRA. The IRA helped the Luftwaffe bomb Belfast and Derry.

Hitler would of course have done to Ireland what he did to every other country. In the Wannsee Conference notes of Jan 1942, Ireland's 4,000 Jews were listed for extermination. No doubt Irish quislings would have helped in this, as quislings helped in every other country.

Luckily, the IRA failed in their plans, and the Jews of Ireland were not exterminated. The IRA has still not apologised for this.





The IRA helped the Luftwaffe bomb Belfast in 1941.From p.397 of [McMahon, 2008]





The IRA did not break off its alliance with Nazi Germany when the Holocaust started.

The Holocaust began in earnest with the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Nazi Germany began the systematic extermination of the Jews of Europe, first with mobile death squads, later with gas chambers.

There were hundreds of mass killings from 1941 onwards. For example:

34,000 Jews were executed at Babi Yar, Ukraine, in Sept 1941 .

. 25,000 Jews were executed at Rumbula forest, Latvia, in Nov-Dec 1941.

The IRA stayed allied to Nazi Germany during this period. The IRA Army Council re-affirmed this alliance in April 1942.

Mass execution of Jewish women, Nazi-occupied Soviet Union, inThis is photo 2725/1 in the Yad Vashem Photo Archives See also photo 2725/11





Jewish women and children lined up for execution in the massacre at Liepaja, Latvia, in Dec 1941.

This is photo 2573/24 in the Yad Vashem Photo Archives.





In the Wannsee Conference notes of Jan 1942, Ireland's 4,000 Jews were listed for extermination. (See "Irland" in list B.)

In Feb 1942 the IRA was helping Nazi spies in Ireland.





In April 1942 the IRA Army Council passed a formal resolution supporting co-operation with Nazi Germany.

From p.223 of The Secret Army, J. Bowyer Bell, 1997 edn.

Chief-of-Staff of the IRA at this time was Seán McCool.

The IRA would be the Vichy regime if the Holocaust came to Ireland.





This all means that, incredibly, these organisations were founded by Nazi collaborators:

Sean Harrington, Chief-of-Staff of the IRA 1941-42, was a Nazi collaborator.The above is from(MI5 diaries), Volume 1: 1939-1942





Charlie Kerins, Chief-of-Staff of the IRA 1942-44, was a Nazi collaborator.

The above is from the Morning Bulletin, Rockhampton, Australia, 1 Feb 1943.

Some guy (apparently) called "Ru Ni Digs" disputes my page: He denies that Sean Harrington, Chief-of-Staff of the IRA 1941-42, and Charlie Kerins, Chief-of-Staff of the IRA 1942-44, were Nazi collaborators. So the items on Harrington and Kerins above are a response to him. The fact is that every Chief-of-Staff of the IRA from 1937 to 1945 was a Nazi collaborator. It was policy. Every IRA leader supported this policy. If "Ru Ni Digs" claims some IRA leader broke with policy and did not support the alliance with the Nazis, I think it’s up to him to provide proof of this extraordinary claim. "Ru Ni Digs" claims I use Stormfront as a source, which is simply a lie.







There are many Irish memorials to Nazi collaborators. And new ones being built all the time.





Memorial to the Nazi collaborator Charlie Kerins, opposite the Bon Secours Hospital , Tralee.See street view





"Charlie's" bar in Tralee is named after a Nazi collaborator.





Memorial to the Nazi collaborator Tom Barry.

Fitzgerald Park, Cork. See street view.

From here. See more.

Nazi graffiti daubed on grave of Tom Barry, Mar 2013: Tom Barry is buried in St. Finbarr's Cemetery, Cork. Republican graves at St. Finbarr's, including Tom Barry's, were vandalised in Mar 2013. Nazi graffiti was daubed on them. Disgraceful. Anyone who does this should be jailed. Nelson McCausland of the DUP seems to be alone in spotting the possible irony that Tom Barry was a Nazi collaborator. Evidence so far though points to an attack by an unstable person with legal problems, rather than a political attack.



There may be all sorts of good reasons why they did so, but the Irish state commemorated a Nazi collaborator with a postage stamp.Nazi collaborator Sean MacBride appeared on an Irish stamp in 1994.From poppe-stamps.com Nazi supporter George Bernard Shaw appeared on a stamp in the same set. (Shaw has appeared on Irish stamps multiple times .)





Christy Moore's simplistic view of the Spanish Civil War: Even if we just stick to the Spanish Civil War, this song is terribly simplistic. Christy Moore describes the war as: "Truth and love against the force of evil; Brotherhood against the fascist clan." Franco was a fascist dictator and ally of Hitler who committed atrocities. But the Spanish Republicans included communists and allies of Stalin who committed atrocities such as killing 7,000 clergy. I would not support either side. Christy Moore attacks the Irish who fought for Franco: "Many Irishmen heard the call of Franco; Joined Hitler and Mussolini too. Propaganda from the pulpit and newspapers; Helped O'Duffy to enlist his crew. The word came from Maynooth, "support the Nazis". The men of cloth failed again; When the Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire; As they sailed beneath the swastika to Spain." Yes, the church was wrong to support fascists, but missing is the fact that the fascists' enemies were torturing and killing priests and nuns, and burning churches. The "anti-fascists" burned synagogues and churches, castrated priests, raped nuns, banned religion. Notice how Christy Moore makes out that the other side were fighting for Nazi Germany . In fact, the only Irishmen who actually fought for the Nazis were the IRA republicans, including .. Frank Ryan. Unfortunately for Christy Moore, Frank Ryan's later behaviour makes this song a tribute to a Nazi collaborator.

Christy Moore's support for communist tyranny: Christy Moore has very dodgy politics. In 2001 he covered "Companeros", a tribute to the Cuban communist dictatorship. See lyrics.



Incredibly,was erected in Ireland in 2014. Memorial to Frank Ryan erected at Limerick City Hall, Sept 2014. Shameful.





From the unveiling of the Sean Russell statue in 1951 What kind of a Nazi collaborators' day out would it be without a good old





The shameful statue of the Nazi collaborator Sean Russell, Fairview Park, Dublin.

Here in July 2009 it has been vandalised, with Nazi flags painted on. Photo from here.

Henry McDonald, 9 May 2004, says: "Dublin remains the only city in democratic Europe where a figurine still stands in homage to a man who openly collaborated with the Nazis."

Even worse, as Tony Allwright points out, this is "the only statue in Dublin to an Irish volunteer killed during World War 2" - a stooge who died on a Nazi U-boat!

This statue should be removed by the state and destroyed.

Note I do not support non-state action against this statue (or any other Irish memorial to a Nazi collaborator). I believe in the rule of law, not the rule of direct action.





In response to the listing here of Seán McCool as a Nazi collaborator, someone called Ruairi McCool sent me the following threatening email in Nov 2009. Instead of providing evidence that his (I assume) relative did not in fact collaborate with Nazi Germany, he writes:

Mr Humphrys,

How dare you label great warriors of Ireland Nazis! You don't deserve to live you Jewish bastard!

Eat shit! I'm a hero if I murder 100 Palestinians, am I?!

While one might understand an emotional reaction to having a relative criticised, a death threat is completely out of order. I referred the email to the Gardai.

He seems to deny that his relative was a Nazi collaborator. But this is fact, not opinion:

The Secret Army, by J. Bowyer Bell, states that Seán McCool helped Nazi spy Günther Schütz in 1942. From pp.220-222 of 1997 edn of The Secret Army: When Seán McCool became Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1942, "McCool and McNamee were tireless and even took up the German thread again. On February 28, 1942, German Sergeant Gunther Schuetz escaped from Mountjoy. ... he disappeared down the old Republican pipeline to appear .. at Mrs Caítlín Brugha's house. ... McCool established direct contact with the Brughas and plans were begun to get Schuetz out of the country on a fishing boat with a shopping list of IRA needs." (McCool was captured in the middle of these plans.) Of course, it is no surprise that McCool helped Schütz and had contact with Nazi Germany. Every single Chief-of-Staff of the IRA from 1938 to 1944 collaborated with Nazi Germany. They only stopped because the Nazis lost the war, not because anybody thought collaborating with the Nazis was wrong.

"What do you think of the war now the Russians are making great headway. It's hard luck that their successes are helping to save the cursed Empire once again apparently. Still a lot of things could happen before the end of it all is reached. So here's hoping." - Seán McCool, letter of 28 Mar 1944, disappointed that the war is not going to finish off Britain. From Sighle Humphreys papers, UCD Archives, P106/893(1).

I also had republican relatives who supported the Nazis and may have even collaborated with them. It was said that one of my relatives spent the day in tears when Hitler died. But unlike Ruairi McCool, I feel no need to defend them. They made their own decisions, and it is their shame not mine.Seán McCool's collaboration with Nazi Germany in 1942.From p.221 of, J. Bowyer Bell, 1997 edn





"tombarry1921" (who used the handle of a Nazi collaborator) said that the IRA collaborating with Nazi Germany in fact proves their anti-Nazi credentials!

Defenders of the IRA and Sinn Fein react in various absurd ways to the information on this page. They often end up saying that supporting the Nazis was "DuineEileAmhain" said it was all long ago. (And this from people who bang on about 1916, Cromwell and the Famine!)





Here is a classic example.

"AndrewDJMorgan" declares strongly that he is anti-Nazi, and Nazis should be "beaten".







The same guy, "AndrewDJMorgan", declares that the IRA supporting the Nazis in WW2 was fine.

From this thread about the IRA and the Nazis, which has other hilarious Shinners in it.





I sum up the above.





Modern Sinn Fein regularly calls its opponents "fascists", attacks Fine Gael as "blueshirts", and so on. This nauseating hypocrisyis amusingly easy to answer.Nauseating Sinn Fein hypocrisy."Horrors of IRA collaboration with Nazis", more like.SF-IRA, the party that collaborated with the Nazis in WW2, and threatened people who fought the Nazis with, now lectures us about the Holocaust.





Mary Lou McDonald of Sinn Fein, the person lecturing us about the Holocaust above, made a speech in 2003 honouring the Nazi collaborator, IRA leader Sean Russell.

From here.





More fun with Sinn Fein hypocrisy on Twitter, Dec 2014 - Jan 2015.

Fine Gael Minister Charlie Flanagan attacks Sinn Fein.

Sinn Fein TD Padraig MacLochlainn unwisely links Fine Gael to the Blueshirts.

A perfect chance for me to dump something like the above in the thread.

Answer that, Sinn Fein!





My tweet is mentioned in the Belfast Telegraph, 5 Jan 2015.







Sinn Fein Councillor blocks me for mentioning IRA support for Nazis.

In Aug 2016, I noticed anti-Israel Sinn Fein Councillor Paul Donnelly blocking various pro-Israel critics.

So I tweeted a link to my page: "IRA support for the Nazis - original documents".

One tweet, to a page of primary sources, not opinion.

He responded by blocking me.





The real freedom fighters of World War 2 were the men who defeated Hitler and saved Western democracy.Freedom fighters: The US military, the UK military, and their allies land in France, 1944, to liberate Europe from the Nazis.From here When the brave US troops landed in Northern Ireland in 1943 to prepare for the coming liberation of Europe, the IRA threatened to kill them . The Nazi collaborator Hugh McAteer , Chief-of-Staff of the IRA, denounced the American military presence in Northern Ireland as anand warned that US troops could expect to be targeted by the IRA.





Not content with collaborating with the Nazis in WW2, the IRA even bombs those who did the right thing and fought the Nazis.

In 1987 in Enniskillen the IRA bombed a memorial service to the allies in WW2, killing 11 people.

Search for videos here and here.





- The IRA's 23 Nov 1940 , applauding Nazi Germany's conquest of Europe