Word: feins
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Fianna Fail: This party contains the other section of the original Sinn Fein party-those that refused to accept the Anglo-Irish treaty- and is led by Eamon de Valera. It is the principal Republican group in the Free State. Until a fortnight ago it steadfastly refused to enter the Dail unless the oath of allegiance to King George were removed. It recanted from this stand, however, and took the oath as "a matter of form (TIME...
...oath of fealty to George V, required of every deputy before he can legally take his seat. At present Mr. De Valera stands at the head of 44 Fianna Fail or "Republican" deputies; and Miss MacSwiney is one of six deputies comprising the much blighted and withered Sinn Fein party to which De Valera formerly belonged. Thus, these 50 deputies if they should stand together, would outnumber the 46 supporters of Mr. Cosgrave in a Dail completed by 56 other deputies of comparatively "neutral" stand...
Observers awaited eagerly the assembly of the new Dail. There was always the chance that Sinn Fein and Fianna Fail deputies would try to enter without taking the oath-a move often threatened never attempted, and sure to lead to many a cracked Irish crown. Sober-minded Irishmen hoped that Mr. Cosgrave would consent to carry on, as before, with the readily obtainable support of the "neutral" parties...
...Sinn Fein is pronounced "Shin Fayn" and means literally "We Ourselves...
...dark of an Irish moon, last week, "soldiers" of the irregular "Irish Republican (Sinn Fein) Army" cut with a twang many a telegraph wire and thereafter indulged in ugly rioting near military barracks in five Irish Free State counties. . . . Next day Mary McSwiney, sister of the Lord Mayor of Cork who in 1920 committed suicide by hungerstriking, made known that these riots had been staged by her Sinn Fein associates as an awful warning to the Dail Eireann. The Dail convened last week with the Sinn Fein Deputies absenting themselves as usual...