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Republican Sinn Féin or RSF (Irish: Sinn Féin Poblachtach) is an Irish republican political party in Ireland. RSF claims to be heirs of the Sinn Féin party founded in 1905; the party took its present form in 1986 following a split in Sinn Féin.
The name is an assertion of Irish national sovereignty and self-determination, ... Sinn Féin is an Irish republican, democratic socialist and left-wing party. [163]
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 ...
A Sinn Fein-led government would shake up Irish politics — and the future of the United Kingdom. The party is already the largest in Northern Ireland, and a Sinn Féin government in the republic ...
[14] [2] A Sinn Féin 'members course' of around 1979 states: "Sinn Féin is the political section of the Republican Movement". [15] Robert White states in the early 1980s Sinn Fein was the junior partner in the relationship with the IRA, and they were separate organisations despite there being some overlapping membership.
From 1933 to 1938 he was an abstentionist Republican Member of Parliament for South Armagh constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland. He chaired the 1934 IRA Army Convention. In 1936, the IRA set up Cumann Poblachta na hÉireann, with McLogan as chairman and one of many Sinn Féin members of the party. [3] He was interned from 1940 to ...
On 2 November 1986, the majority of delegates to the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis voted to drop the policy of abstentionism if elected to Dáil Éireann, but not the British House of Commons or the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont, thus ending the self-imposed ban on Sinn Féin elected representatives from taking seats at Leinster House. Ó ...
Seosamh Ó Maoileoin (born Joseph Malone) is an Irish Republican politician from Meedin, Tyrrellspass, County Westmeath. [1] He has been the president of Republican Sinn Féin since November 2018 following the resignation of Des Dalton. [2] [3] [4]