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Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Sinn Fein 1905 - 1956
Author: A Proud history gives confidence of victory
Author: M. Uí BhuachallaHistory of the Sinn Fein Movement and the Irish Rebellion of 1916
Author: Francis P. JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Sinn Fein (Gaelic for "We Ourselves") was founded to promote the cultural revival and political independence of Ireland. History of the Sinn Fein Movement and the Irish Rebellion of 1916 is a detailed history of the movement, written by Francis P. Jones, a former member of the movement who had immigrated to the United States from Ireland. The book covers the period from the founding of Sinn Fein in Dublin in 1905 to the Easter Rising of April 1916. It deals with the economic, cultural, religious, and political aspects of Irish independence, as well as the twists and turns of British policy and the debates in Parliament over Home Rule. More than half of the book is a detailed account of the Easter Rising, based on documentary sources and the first-hand accounts of men involved in the fighting who had fled to the United States. The final chapters deal with the aftermath of the uprising, including the trial and execution of its leaders. A chapter on the "Women of the Nation" is by the author's wife, to whom the book is dedicated. The introduction is by John W. Goff (1848-1924), an immigrant from Ireland who was prominent in New York as a lawyer and judge. The appendix, "Ireland's Roll of Honor," contains a complete list of the names of the men killed in the fighting of April 1916 and of those sentenced to penal servitude, hard labor, or prison. The appendix concludes with details of the numbers of men deported and jailed without trial.
Sinn Féin, 1905-2005
Author: Kevin RafterPublisher: Gill
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
"In this new book, Kevin Rafter investigates the emergence of Sinn Fein as a political force on the island of Ireland. He examines the concessions and compromises - sponsored by Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness - which have aided Sinn Fein's recent political advance." "He delves into the history of a party founded a century ago and charts how the political brand that is the name Sinn Fein has been used and abused over the last hundred years. He explores Sinn Fein's policy positions, its funding sources and its electoral prospects."--BOOK JACKET.
Sinn Fein 1905-1910
Author: Dianne Marie CoffeyPublisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Sacred Egoism of Sinn Fein
Author: Gnathai Gan IarriadhPublisher:
ISBN: 9781523620876
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Sinn Fein was founded on 28 November 1905, when, at the first annual Convention of the National Council, Arthur Griffith outlined the Sinn Fein policy, "to establish in Ireland's capital a national legislature endowed with the moral authority of the Irish nation." Sinn Fein contested the North Leitrim by-election, 1908, and secured 27% of the vote. Thereafter, both support and membership fell. At the 1910 Ard Fheis (party conference) the attendance was poor and there was difficulty finding members willing to take seats on the executive. In 1914, Sinn Fein members, including Griffith, joined the anti-Redmond Irish Volunteers, which was referred to by Redmondites and others as the "Sinn Fein Volunteers." Although Griffith himself did not take part in the Easter Rising of 1916, many Sinn Fein members, who were also members of both the Volunteers and the Irish Republican Brotherhood, did. Government and newspapers dubbed the Rising "the Sinn Fein Rising." After the Rising, republicans came together under the banner of Sinn Fein, and at the 1917 Ard Fheis the party committed itself for the first time to the establishment of an Irish Republic. In the 1918 general election, Sinn Fein won 73 of Ireland's 105 seats, and in January 1919, its MPs assembled in Dublin and proclaimed themselves Dail Eireann, the parliament of Ireland. The party supported the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence, and members of the Dail government negotiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty with the British Government in 1921. In the Dail debates that followed, the party divided on the Treaty. Anti-Treaty members led by Eamon de Valera walked out, and pro- and anti-Treaty members took opposite sides in the ensuing Civil War."
The Sinn Fein Movement 1905-1921
Author: Ellen M. MurphyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The Evolution of Sinn Fein
Author: Robert Mitchell HenryPublisher:
ISBN: 9781523619702
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Sinn Fein is an Irish republican political party active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves," although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone." Originating in the Sinn Fein organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970 after a split within the party (the other party became the Workers' Party of Ireland), and has been historically associated with the IRA. Gerry Adams has been party president since 1983. Sinn Fein is currently the second-largest party behind the Democratic Unionist Party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, where it has four ministerial posts in the power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive, and the fourth-largest party in the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic. Sinn Fein also received the second highest number of Northern Ireland votes and seats in the 2015 Westminster elections, behind the DUP. INTRODUCTORY 2. IRISH NATIONALISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 9. SINN FEIN 21. THE EARLY YEARS OF SINN FEIN 37. SINN FEIN AND THE REPUBLICANS 46. THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT 55. ULSTER AND NATIONALIST IRELAND 66. SINN FEIN, 1914-1916 81. AFTER THE RISING 109. CONCLUSION 143."
In the shadow of history
Author: Agnès MaillotPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526183943
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
From 1926 onward, Sinn Féin, which had been instrumental in the revolutionary period of 1919–23, faded into oblivion. This book unravels a chapter of history that has not been dealt with in detail until now, although the operation of the party raises fundamental questions on issues such as democracy and the role of history in the construction of a national narrative. Through a close analysis of newspaper reports, fortnightly Standing committee minutes, and interviews carried out by the author, it looks at the manner in which the party operated and put itself forward as the guardian of Republicanism in Ireland. The book offers a valuable insight into the meaning of Republicanism, and its narrative represents an integral part of the political and social fabric of contemporary Irish society, which will be of relevance to academics and to all readers with an interest in Irish republicanism.
No Ordinary Women
Author: Sinéad McCoolePublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299195007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
"Constance Markievicz had some advice for women activists: 'Leave your jewels in the bank, and buy a revolver.' Most of the women who became involved in the fight for Ireland's freedom did not have jewels to swap for guns, but the change in their circumstances and lives would be just as radical. Setting aside their roles as dutiful daughters, wives, and mothers, they became dispatch carriers, gunrunners, spies. Guns in hand, they fought alongside their male comrades in arms, displaying a courage and resolution that astonished and sometimes offended public opinion of the time." "What they were doing was considered 'unladylike and disreputable' - a notion that explains why their stories became hidden histories; in many cases families were unaware that their great-aunts and grannies had prison records." "But the evidence is there in their prison diaries and autograph books, in the graffiti that remain on the walls of Kilmainham Gaol, and in the archive lists of women prisoners of 1916, the War of Independence, and the Civil War. From this wealth of material and interviews with survivors, Sinead McCoole has produced a portrait of the girls and women whose indomitable spirit overcame hunger strikes, harsh prison conditions, and the tragedy of huge personal loss."--BOOK JACKET.