Resources

Resources and community guides from Hope and Courage Collective (previously FRO) and community-focused research from Ireland and beyond.

We have included recommended podcasts series and brilliant explainer video shorts, with takeaway learning for anyone looking to increase their own understanding.

Browse, use and share our resources section to help get to grips with what’s going on in the intersection of communities, technology and politics and how we can remain resilient together.

 

Our Recent Work

Responding to Far Right, Hate, Action and Intimidation
A guide for accommodation center managers and staff and those working to support refugees and people seeking asylum who are experiencing homelessness.

A Guide to Understanding and Responding to the Far Right
In partnership with our Community Workers Ireland colleagues, we created this resource to support community workers, community work organisations and groups concerned with promoting social inclusion and human rights to respond to far-right actors and activity.

How to respond to local protests against people seeking asylum in your area

10 Steps you can take to de-escalate fear and tension from local protests in your community.

Understanding the far-right

A cycle of where we are right now VS where we need to be

How to Counter ‘House Our Own First’ & Other Far-Right Narratives

In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to Emily Duffy, Director of Parable Grassroots communications, about how to talk about messages and ideas, such as we can provide homes for all, and thus undercut and challenge the ‘house our own first’ and other far-right narratives blaming immigrants and asylum seekers for the housing crisis.

How to build solidarity in your community: How a Cork town opened its arms to refugees

Irish Examiner Mar 2023

Strategic Work

Urgent steps to address and mitigate escalating hate, disinformation, polarisation causing harm, division and discord in our communities across Ireland.

Hope and Courage Collective sets out critical steps to the Joint Committee on Children Equality, Disability and Youth on the topic of integration and refugee issues.

Niamh McDonald from Hope and Courage Collective speaking to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability Integration and Youth.

Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability Integration and Youth Feb 2023

Mark Malone from Hope and Courage Collective highlights how the far-right are using digital platforms to spread anti-immigrant messages

Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability Integration and Youth Feb 2023

 

Hope and Courage Collective (previously FRO) Media and Press

Far-right using digital platforms to spread anti-immigrant messages, monitoring group says

Irish Times Feb 2023

Govt must engage with local communities if far right is to be stopped, committee hears

RTE News Feb 2023

Big Tech platforms failing to stop far right spreading hate and disinformation – campaigners

The Business Post Feb 2023

Far right spreading of misinformation an ‘emergency’, politicians tell Oireachtas committee

Irish Times Feb 2023

Onus is on Government to prevent spread of hate online, committee hears

Irish Examiner Feb 2023

Listen Back: Radio Ulster Evening Extra
FRO joins Richard Morgan and Tara Mills to discuss far right  involvement in recent anti migrant protest in Ireland. 42 min in.
Feb 2023

Listen Back: Northside Today
Niamh McDonald, FRO co-ordinator joins Donie Tarrant live in studio to discuss our work, the rise in anti-migrant organising and how social media companies are fueling hate.
Jan 2023

Listen Back: FRO on The Mick Clifford Podcast

In this episode of The Mick Clifford podcast, we speak about the work of FRO and what’s driving hate in our communities and, crucially, what together in our communities we are doing about it.
Oct 2022

‘We were afraid’: Ireland’s far-right is mobilising, and they are coming to a town near you
Irish Times Jan 2023

Communities Organising to Counter Anti-Immigrant Protests Strategise About Best Methods
Dublin Inquirer Jan 2023

Protests about refugees ring hauntingly hollow
Irish Examiner Jan 2023

Social media giants urged to switch off ‘toxic algorithms’ that push extreme content
Irish Examiner Jan 2023

Gardaí keep close eye on the far right as extremists stoke anger online and on the streets
Irish Independent Jan 2023

Refugees welcome: ‘Chanting ‘get them out’ to the most vulnerable. What does that achieve?’
Irish Times Jan 2023

Irish anti-migrant YouTube creators profiting off content with money pledged by viewers.
Irish Examiner Jan 2023

 

 

Recommended News reports on far-right activity in Ireland

Telegram Is the Far-Right’s Weapon of Choice in Ireland

Vice April 2021

How a Cork town opened its arms to refugees: ‘You just need to love your community

Irish Examiner Mar 2023

The far right rises: Its growth as a political force in Ireland
Irish Times,  Sept. 2020

Anti-LGBTQ+ far-right groups on the rise in Ireland, report finds
GCN,  Aug 2022

GoFundMe probing €150k fundraiser as it removes several Irish far-right campaigns
The Journal, Aug 2022

 


 

Recommended Podcasts

Radikaal
A series from Cas Mudde, a Dutch political scientist who focuses on political extremism and populism in Europe and the United States.

12 Rules for What  
A podcast series by British anti fascists about 21st Century fascists, nazis, and far right, from the perspective of the left.

Tech Won’t Save Us
A series that critically examines the tech industry, it’s thought leaders, and the worldview it spreads. The host Paris Marx and guests present radical ideas for tech designed for human flourishing instead of surveillance, acquisitions, or to boost stock prices. A better world is possible, and so is better technology.

Rabbit Hole
What is the internet doing to us? This podcast series from the New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose discovers what happens when our lives move online.


Video Shorts

How the far right personally targeted people who welcomed asylum seekers in Lisdoonvarna

STOPFARRIGHT Seminar Series 5: Civil society and the Far-right

Far right online: the rise of extremist gamers

Why The Far Right Are So Weird About Sex | Decade of Hate

How right-wing extremists use social media to lure followers | DW News  


Further Reading

Countering the Radical Right
Open Democracy and Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right

A resource useful to anyone focused on countering the far-right across different countries and regions (in particular Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand) by helping us all discern what counter-narratives and counter-extremism campaigns are the most effective. The project looks at both traditional and new media and determining what strategies work on different platforms.

What is the internet doing to us? This podcast series from the New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose discovers what happens when our lives move online.


Relevant Research


 

How to Counter ‘House Our Own First’ & Other Far-Right Narratives

In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory talks to Emily Duffy, Director of Parable Grassroots communications, about how to talk about messages and ideas, such as we can provide homes for all, and thus undercut and challenge the ‘house our own first’ and other far-right narratives blaming immigrants and asylum seekers for the housing crisis.

Antifascist Europe

Antifascist Europe is an antifascist research project spanning activist initiatives, journalists and researchers from around Europe who monitor the development and transnational networks of far-right and right-wing populist parties as well as white supremacist, neo-Nazi and fascist group

Stop Far Right Project, Barry Cannon, Richard King, Joseph Munnelly, and Riyad el-Moslemany

These body of research looks at how civil society organisations most affected by far right (FR) discourse – that is those groups supporting migrants, ethnic and sexual minorities, women’s rights and groups with explicit anti-FR activities – could counter-act such discourse and actions emerging from it.

Ireland Country Report 2021
Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE)

GPAHE conducts and shares deep research on far-right extremist groups and movements in multiple countries and published their report on Ireland in 2022

Tip Of the Iceberg: Religious Extremist Funders against Human Rights for Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Europe 2009 – 2019
European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights

Tip of the Iceberg assembles financial data covering a ten year period of over 50 anti-gender actors operating in Europe. It then takes a deeper look at how religious extremists generate this funding to roll back human rights in sexuality and reproduction.

Covid 19 Conspiracy in Ireland and the Far Right Nexus
Lorraine Bowman
Many have asked if there is a link between a rise of the far right and COVID-19 related conspiracy theories. This short brief looks at the evidence in Ireland.

Down the (White) Rabbit Hole: The Extreme Right and Online Recommender Systems
Derek O’Callaghan, Derek Greene, Maura Conway, Joe Carthy and Pádraig Cunningham

One of the first major pieces of research, led by researchers in Ireland, that uncovered real and potential harms of platform use, whereby users accessing an extreme right YouTube video are likely to be recommended further extreme right content, leading to immersion in an ideological bubble in just a few short clicks.