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A Sinn Féin organiser of the time in Belfast described the party's role as "agitation and publicity" [63] New cumainn (branches) were established in Belfast, and a new newspaper, Republican News, was published. [64] Sinn Féin took off as a protest movement after the introduction of internment in August 1971, organising marches and pickets. [65]
Sinn Féin vote share in Irish constituencies in the 1918 general election. Sinn Féin won 73 of Ireland's 105 seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at the December 1918 general election, twenty-five of them uncontested. The IPP, the largest party in Ireland for forty years, had not fought a general election since 1910; in many ...
In 1971, it registered to contest Dáil and local elections in the Republic of Ireland under the name Sinn Féin. [5] From the early to mid-1970s, it was known as Official Sinn Féin or Sinn Féin (Gardiner Place) to distinguish it from the rival offshoot Provisional Sinn Féin, or Sinn Féin (Kevin Street).
Republican Sinn Féin maintains that Ireland should remain independent of large power blocks and thus is a Eurosceptic party. The people who would go on to found RSF, while they were still members of Provisional Sinn Féin in 1972 opposed Ireland being brought into the European Economic Community, which later became the European Union.
In 1983, Adams was elected president of Sinn Féin and became the first Sinn Féin MP elected to the British House of Commons since Phil Clarke and Tom Mitchell in the mid-1950s. [20] Following his election as MP for Belfast West, the British government lifted a ban on his travelling to Great Britain.
The president of Sinn Féin (Irish: Uachtarán Shinn Féin) is the most senior politician within the Sinn Féin political party in Ireland.Since 10 February 2018, the office has been held by Mary Lou McDonald, following the decision of Gerry Adams to stand down as leader of the party and not seek re-election again. [1]
Sinn Féin has three senators in the Seanad Éireann (upper house) (most recent election in 2020). Originally, there were five but Elisha McCallion resigned in October 2020 and Lynn Boylan was elected as an MEP for Dublin in the 2024 European Parliament election.
Sinn Féin is the second largest political party in the Oireachtas and largest in Dáil Éireann. The Sinn Féin leader appoints a team of TDs and Senators to speak for the party on different issues. Their areas of responsibility broadly correspond to those of Government ministers.