The Army Comrades Association (ACA), later named the National Guard and better known by the nickname The Blueshirts, was an Irish political organisation that was active in the 1930s. The Blueshirts are sometimes described as "quasi-fascist", and the extent to which they can be seen as the Irish equivalent of Hitler's Brownshirts and Mussolini's Blackshirts remains disputed. The argument that they were fascists's generally based on the adherence of their leader (General Eoin O'Duffy) and some ot… (More on Blueshirts)