nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/70b2f73974d1a60f DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260520s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/70b2f73974d1a60f doi eng 342 23 O’Brien, Patrick Author aut On Men and their Tractors O’Brien, Patrick Verfassungsblog 2026-05-20 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 Identity Irland Irland Populism Protest far-right (DE-588)4027667-3 gnd Irland Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/on-men-and-their-tractors/ raw object