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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.
Official Sinn Féin also built up fraternal relations with the USSR and with socialist, workers' and communist parties around the world. [ 6 ] Throughout the 1980s, the party came to staunchly oppose republican political violence , controversially to the point of recommending cooperating with British security forces.
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 ...
Sinn Féin, the former political arm of the IRA, is hoping Ireland's 2024 election will bring it to power for the first time ever. ... Mary Lou McDonald, leader of Sinn Fein, campaigns and talks ...
[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. [16]
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 ...
Sinn Fein's polling collapse from government-in-waiting to likely also-rans at an Irish election next week looks set to rob Irish nationalists of a potentially transformative moment in their ...
Sinn Féin 1970–1983 Republican Sinn Féin 1986–2009: Gerry Adams: 35y: Sinn Féin 1983–2018: West Belfast, Louth: William Norton: 28y: Irish Labour 1932–1960: Tomás Mac Giolla: 26y: Sinn Féin 1962–1970 Official Sinn Féin 1970–1977 Sinn Féin The Workers' Party 1977–1982 Workers' Party 1982–1988: Hugh Smyth: 23y: Progressive ...