Lia Fáil (a political party during the 50s and 60s) on the 1959 Presidential Election, warning of Dev’s “Satanic lust for Power” & closeness to TCD, Freemasons etc..

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1. [source](https://twitter.com/peelersandsheep?t=SeUohmNMrHMhrFt55tv87Q&s=09)

2. Wow so Dev was from outter space? Guess that explains a lot

3. Jaysus I’ve no love for DeValera but that’s taken hyperbole to a whole new planet.

   Had to laugh at number 10

   > He is a notorious anti-cleric

   The man who literally had an Archbishop help him draft the constitution, and oversaw decades of church interference in the social and political fabric of the state was anti-cleric?

   That’d be a funny joke, if we weren’t still dealing with the legacies of that today.

4. An anti-cleric? In what world?

5. Who were/are the “New Invaders”?

6. He was in the masons? Never heard that before

7. Having a dig at Erskine Childers too in point 14.Lovely people.

8. >23 He is a shameless political dodger

   Lol

9. It’s a printout of a r/Ireland politics thread?

   Literally just needs Shinnerbots and BlueShirts and a load of empty mod reports and it’s complete.

10. I had no idea Dev was a Martian. Just looking at no 1.

11. Wasn’t this the party that wanted to take back NI by invading and airstriking with nukes?

12. A Lia Fáil, gas lads. They were led by a renegade priest and their main policies were land reform (hence the dig at Childers, who was Minister for Agriculture at the time) and calling for Ireland to become a nuclear power, and then employ said nuclear weapons to either re-capture or obliterate/irradiate the North. The Irish Political Ephemera guy covered them a while ago, definitely worth a listen – [https://anchor.fm/alan-kinsella/episodes/Lia-Fil–Episode-22-eltqf5](https://anchor.fm/alan-kinsella/episodes/Lia-Fil–Episode-22-eltqf5)

13. He is the ‘darling’ of the British Garrison.

    Pretty sure [that was this guy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Darling_(politician))