the newspaper was founded by gearóid ó cuinneagáin as the party organ of ailtirí na haiséirghe. this was a minor radical nationalist and fascist political party, founded in 1942. it sought to form a totalitarian irish christian corporatist state. the party obtained no seats in the 1943 and 1944 general elections and gradually weakened after a split in 1945. it finished in 1958, but the newspaper continued to be published.