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Sinn Féin (/ ʃ ɪ n ˈ f eɪ n / shin FAYN; [16] Irish: [ˌʃɪn̠ʲ ˈfʲeːnʲ] ⓘ; lit. ' [We] Ourselves ') [17] is an Irish republican [18] and democratic socialist [19] political party active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith.
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 ...
The name Sinn Féin, meaning "ourselves" or "we ourselves", has been used by a number of political organisations in Ireland since 1905, when first used by Arthur Griffith. Sinn Féin was the party of separatism before Irish independence, and broke through in the Westminster election of 1918, where it won 73 of the 105 Irish seats.
Mr Cleverly said Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O’Neill, an elected member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, was invited to attend but opted not to. Mrs McDonald, who is elected to the Irish ...
Sinn Fein's commanding three-year opinion poll lead melted away in the election run-up. It picked up just 12% of the vote as more people seized on immigration as their top concern rather than ...
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Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh (born 1982/1983) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kildare South constituency since the 2024 general election. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Early and personal life
Griffith was put forward as a Sinn Féin candidate for the East Cavan by-election on 20 June 1918. [22] Under the slogan "Put him in to get him out," and was elected. and held the seat when Sinn Féin subsequently routed the Irish Parliamentary Party at the 1918 general election with a commitment of abstentionism from the British House of ...