http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/70b2f73974d1a60f https://verfassungsblog.de/on-men-and-their-tractors/ On Men and their Tractors O’Brien, Patrick eng 2026-05-20 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Identity Irland Irland Populism Protest far-right Irland Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 In a recent post, Suryapratim Roy discusses the Irish fuel price blockades that took place in April 2026. Most of its leaders identified as farmers, but the protests also had a far-right element. Roy identifies the protestors as a “fossil elite” of wealthy farmers seeking to preserve their own economic interest and characterises the protests as “a marriage of fossil capital and racial capital”. I reflect and respond to a part of Roy’s argument. The answer, I believe, lies in the appropriation by the far-right of a hitherto innocuous indigenous Irish archetype: the Men with Tractors.