10 Facts About Brendan Clifford

Brendan Clifford was born on 1936 and is an Irish historian and political activist.

Brendan Clifford was born in the Sliabh Luachra area of Munster, Republic of Ireland.

Later, he joined the Irish Communist Group which soon split into two factions; Brendan Clifford sided with the Maoist faction, which named itself the Irish Communist Organisation.

In 1967, Brendan Clifford gave a public speech on the Republican Congress in Wynn's Hotel, Dublin, at a meeting of the Irish trade union group Sceim na gCeardchumann.

Brendan Clifford soon became a prolific publisher of material advocating the group's viewpoint.

Brendan Clifford was an active member of the Campaign for Equal Citizenship political-advocacy group which advocated this aim.

Brendan Clifford defended the British Monarchy, arguing it played a socially beneficial role in British society.

Brendan Clifford has argued Britain, not Germany, bears responsibility for starting World War II: "Going over the events of 1939, one can hardly suppress the thought that Britain decided to aggravate Germany over the last national issue remaining from the Versailles arrangement and make it an occasion for war, lest no further opportunity for war should present itself, and the Munich Agreement [] should prove to be a settlement".

Brendan Clifford has taken issue with Irish histories of the Irish Free State during the Second World War.

Brendan Clifford has endorsed David Irving as a historian and argued the charges of Holocaust denial laid against Irving are unjust, stating Irving has not denied that "millions were killed deliberately" by the Nazi government.