{"id":316366,"date":"2026-02-25T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/316366\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:14:09","slug":"mna-na-leinte-gorma-review-excellent-tg4-documentary-on-how-the-blue-blouses-story-was-brushed-under-historys-carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/316366\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mn\u00e1 na L\u00e9inte Gorma\u2019 review: Excellent TG4 documentary on how the Blue Blouses story was brushed under history\u2019s carpet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">This fascinating film shows we cannot write off the group\u2019s brief popularity of as a blip in history\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Women dressed as Blue Blouses for dramatised scenes in the excellent documentary \u2018Mn\u00e1 na L\u00e9inte Gorma\u2019, on TG4 on March 4. Photo: Bo Media\/TG4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/a00915b8-c1ca-48af-aca6-06cf288a11eb.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Women dressed as Blue Blouses for dramatised scenes in the excellent documentary \u2018Mn\u00e1 na L\u00e9inte Gorma\u2019, on TG4 on March 4. Photo: Bo Media\/TG4<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Fascists love a nice uniform. Hitler had his Brownshirts. Mussolini and Mosley had their Blackshirts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Here in Ireland from 1932 to 1935, Eoin O\u2019Duffy had his Blueshirts, the unofficial name of the Army Comrades Association, later the National Guard, then Young Ireland and finally, as it faded into irrelevance, the League of Youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This fascinating film shows we cannot write off the group\u2019s brief popularity of as a blip in history&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270,9617,15337],"class_list":{"0":"post-316366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-pat-stacey","13":"tag-tg4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}