Architects of the Resurrection

<p>In 1942 Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin a young pro-Axis activist founded Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (Architects of the Resurrection) a fascist movement that aimed to destroy the infant Irish democracy and replace it with a one-party totalitarian state. <br><br>But Ailtirí na hAiséirghe was no Nazi imitator. Rather it aimed at something far more ambitious: the fusion of totalitarianism and Christianity that would make Ireland a missionary-ideological state wielding global influence in the postwar era. Supported by idealistic youths and mainstream politicians like Ernest Blythe Oliver J. Flanagan and Dan Breen-and scrutinised anxiously by British and American intelligence-Aiséirghe won several seats in the 1945 local government elections. <br><br>Architects of the Resurrection casts an uncomfortable light on the popularity of anti-democratic anti-Semitic and extremist ideas in wartime Ireland. Students of Irish history and of comparative fascism will find many new insights in this book.</p>