Thursday, April 30, 2026

Nationalism and anti-Semitism in Ireland


The difference between anti-Judaism (the "Talmudic Jewish religion") and anti-Semitism (Jewish people as a race) was first laid out explicitly at a magisterial level by Card Merry del Val when he was Prefect of the Holy Office. The latter was roundly and soundly condemned.

Fr Edward Cahill was a Jesuit, a supporter of Irish nationalism, and an anti-Semite. According to him,
The modern anti-Christian movement, which centres around Liberalism, owes much of its rapid progress to the secret society of the free masons... Freemasonry today is the enemy of the Church and every Catholic Government and Catholic institution in the world. It is closely associated with Modern Judaism (including Rationalistic Jews, as well as those of the Talmud and Cabala); and is largely under Jewish influence and guidance[.]
He also founded An Ríoghacht, which would go on to form the basis of Fr Denis Fahey's Maria Duce. Fahey was an anti-Semitic theologian who made frequent references to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He was also
influenced by Nesta Webster, an English writer who promoted theories of Jewish involvement in secret societies advocating for revolution. Webster promoted the Protocols, was involved in British fascist groups in the 1930s and influenced the later John Birch Society and many other anti-communist and antisemitic groups. Even Hillaire Beloc described her writing as ‘lunatic’, but Fahey enthusiastically promoted her work to this students. 
And Fahey's great disciple in America was of course the notorious radio priest Fr Charles Coughlin, who repeated and indeed republished Fahey's conspiracy theories about how "the Jews" had been behind the Russian Revolution. 

Fahey (not to be confused with Fr John Fahy) and Éamon de Valera meanwhile weren't just at the same school (Rockwell College, Cashel*), they were even in the same rugby team. The school itself was a foundation of the Holy Ghost Fathers, of which order Abp Lefebvre would later become the superior.

Lefebvre's great mentor though was Fr Henri Le Floch, the Rector of the French Seminary in Rome who was removed by Pius XI in 1927 for his endorsement of Maurras and Action Française. Le Floch's close friend and ideological ally Cardinal Billot actually "resigned" from the College of Cardinals in protest. Le Floch had of course also had an influence on Fahey, who was himself a distant supporter of Maurras and would later go to become a Holocaust denier.

Cahill died in 1941, after which Fahey effectively took over his political movement. Now calling itself Maria Duce, in practice it did little more than picket cinemas on the grounds that the Hollywood films they were showing were too "Jewish" - the word no longer meaning religion or even race so much as anything Fahey and his mob disapproved of, including (non-Jewish) American actors such as Orson Welles and Gregory Peck. There was also an attempt by members of Maria Duce to infiltrate the Legion of Mary.

By the early 1950s Archbp. John McQuaid, the Archbishop of Dublin, had had enough, and took steps effectively to suppress Fahey's group. After Fahey's death in 1954 it changed its name to Firinne (Truth), after which it survived up until the 1960s.

*I happen to know there was a copy of Cahill's 1932 book The Framework of the Christian State in the school library because said volume is now on my bookcase.

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Muscular Christianity?

There is something odd though about reading your Bible on a Sunday morning but not taking part in public worship.

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Crist lim. Crist remam.
Crist imm degaid. Crist innum.
Crist ísum. Crist úasam.
Crist dessum. Crist tuathum.
Crist illius. Crist ipsius [sic],
Crist inerus.

Christ with me, Christ before me,
Christ behind me, Christ within me,
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ at my right, Christ at my left,
(Christ in the fort,
Christ in the chariot-seat,
Christ in the mighty stern.)

[The Lorica of St Patrick]

Vor uns liegt Deutschland, in uns marschiert Deutschland, und hinter uns kommt Deutschland!

Germany lies before us, Germany marches within us, and behind us comes Germany!

[Speech in Nuremberg, 8th September 1934]

Saturday, December 13, 2025

Saturday, November 22, 2025

'Half a century after the death of Franco, Spain is a far better place', whinny the twerps at The Economist.

And if you ignore the utterly dire state of things in Spain since 2008 you might even be able to go on thinking that's the case.

The reality is of course quite different.


The most macabre thing is that the twerps are well aware of the problems that population collapse is going to bring. They're just incapable of even thinking of solutions.

Nationalism and anti-Semitism in Ireland

The difference between anti- Judaism (the "Talmudic Jewish religion") and anti- Semitism (Jewish people as a race) was first laid ...