Word: fein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soaring reference to the injustice of dividing Northern and Southern Ireland, both the speakers and their listeners knew that none of the old men who lead Irish politics today, nor even men much younger than they, were likely to live to see partition's end. The Sinn Fein (We Ourselves) Party, the political front for the I.R.A.. won only four seats. When De Valera heard that the Sinn Fein members would as usual refuse to take their seats, he said simply: "These men are living in the past...
...years of waiting for a peaceful end to the partition of their country, the Irish from time to time turn to thoughts of violence. When they do, they think of the Irish Republican Army, an outgrowth of the Sinn Fein movement, which has a romantic place in the Irish imagination. Last week, after the I.R.A.'s audacious raid on a British army barracks just 40 miles west of London, the thoughts grew bolder. "This will bring recruits by the dozen," predicted one Irish observer...
...demonstrations in Belfast today. Remembering some slight disturbances last March, when a few of the boys worked over some shops and a police station, the Ulster government is wary of a new gathering. And perhaps they're right. It is a glorious sight when the lads of the Sinn Fein go swinging down the road, keeping time to the tap of their shillelaghs on the cobblestones; but feelings do run high...