National Socialist Irish Workers Party

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National Socialist Irish Workers Party
AbbreviationNSIWP
Leader Terence Allan-Byrne
Founded1968
Dissolvedlate 1980s
Headquarters6 Brendan's Cottages, Irishtown, Dublin
69 Eugene Street, The Coombe
NewspaperPhoenix
Ideology Neo-Nazism
Political position Far-right
International affiliation World Union of National Socialists

The National Socialist Irish Workers Party (NSIWP) was a minor neo-nazi party in the Republic of Ireland, founded in 1968.

History

The NSIWP was founded in 1968 by Terence Allan-Byrne in Irishtown, Dublin. [1] Among its members was Jos Mussche, a former member of the Dutch SS. Its newsletter was called Phoenix. [2] [3] The party had close links to the National Socialist British Workers Party, and was affiliated to the World Union of National Socialists. [4] [5]

In 1979, Byrne had a swastika carved into his chest; he refused to allow an Indian doctor treat it and was referred to another hospital, where a different doctor refused to treat him and ‘remarked that the wounds he was receiving were costing the tax-payers a lot of money’. [6]

The NSIWP only ever had a handful of members and never contested any elections; however, it was important in producing of Nazi paraphernalia for the European and British movement, as, unlike most European countries, the Republic of Ireland had no law like the British Race Relations Acts that forbade production or sale of neo-Nazi material. They also sent threatening letters to Irish Jews and Black people living in Ireland. [7] Tomás Mac Giolla (Workers' Party, a socialist party), Tony Gregory (an independent left-wing TD) and Alan Shatter (a Jewish Fine Gael TD) raised the matter in Dáil Eireann in 1985; [7] the Prohibition of Incitement To Hatred Act, 1989 made the production of such items illegal.

Republican socialists and other anti-fascists occasionally fought with NSIWP members. [8] "Commander" Byrne died in the early 1980s, and the party ceased to exist by the late 1980s. Colm Tarrant, secretary of the NSIWP, later went on to work with the Irish–Arab Society, an anti-Israel organisation. [9]

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