Word: fein
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...There isn't an organization called Sinn Fein/IRA. I am not a spokesperson for the IRA," he said. "I suppose eventually history will be told and told very honestly about all of us. I am [a member of the Westminster parliament] for Sinn Fein...
...chief negotiator for Sinn Fein blamed the British government for the strife in Northern Ireland when he spoke to a Harvard audience Friday about prospects for peace in the region...
Martin McGuinness, second in command to Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams and a member of the Westminister Parliament for Sinn Fein, addressed the political issues in Ireland to about 500 people at the ARCO Forum...
BELFAST: As one cease-fire draws to a close in the Persian Gulf, could another be deteriorating in Northern Ireland? A power struggle within Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, has led to the resignation of 12 party members ? and more disconcertingly, two key members of the guerrilla organization appear to have defected to a breakaway movement known as Continuity...
...What's their beef? The breaking point, it appears, came when Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams signed up to Senator George Mitchell's list of principles at the Ulster talks ? in other words, when he committed himself to resolving differences by peaceful means. To some Republicans wrapped up in the Troubles, that was tantamount to surrender. And thus the Irish question continues, as it has done for centuries, to defy solution...