![]() ![]() ![]() Much of its activity concerns street fighting with the quasi- fascist Blueshirt movement and he fights Blueshirt fascism on the streets of Cork in 1933–34. ![]() The IRA at the time is inclined toward left-wing politics and socialism. Despite his parents being native speakers of the Irish language, it is not until he is interned in the Curragh Camp during World War II that he learns Irish, being taught by fellow internee Máirtín Ó Cadhain, who goes on to lecture at Trinity College, Dublin.Īs a teenager, O’Riordan joins the Irish nationalist youth movement, Fianna Éireann, and then the Irish Republican Army (IRA). His parents come from the West Cork Gaeltacht of Ballingeary– Gougane Barra. O’Riordan is the youngest of five children. Michael O’Riordan, the founder of the Communist Party of Ireland who also fights with the Connolly Column in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, is born at 37 Pope’s Quay, Cork, County Cork, on November 12, 1917. ![]()
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