Word: fein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...risen in the world by becoming a policeman, sent him to prison again for trying to ship arms into the country. But before he died old Leo had the satisfaction of seeing Johnny's young son Dennis denounce his father for a spy and join the Sinn Fein during the Easter Rising...
Promoter of Tipperary's All-Ireland Champions is Dan Breen, famed leader of Sinn Fein riots from 1919 to 1923, onetime Commandant General of the Third Tipperary Brigade in the Irish Republican Army, before that a famed Tipperary hurler...
...intense nationalism, Tim Healy generally kept out of jail, never joined the Sinn Fein, and thoroughly disapproved of the Easter Rebellion of 1916. It has been said that picking Tim Healy for first Governor General of the Free State in 1922 was the most brilliant political stroke that Prime Minister Bonar Law ever made. King George would never have approved anyone connected with Sinn Fein. Catholic Ireland would not have accepted anyone who was not a confirmed Home-Ruler...