Word: feins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dublin, on the exceedingly beautiful morning of Easter Monday, 1916, a bloody riot was followed by the issuance of a manifesto in which the revolutionaries proclaimed Ireland an Independent State and a Republic, in the name of Sinn Fein ("We Ourselves"). On that day Eamonn (Edward) de Valera distinguished himself by capturing Boland's Bakery, which he ingeniously utilized as a fortress and a food supply base. From Boland's Bakery he vaulted through an orgy of terror to the presidency of "We Ourselves," which constituted "the Irish Republic." When the Irish Free State Agreement was negotiated...
Last week the oozing process appeared complete. The Sinn Fein, also referred to as "The Irish Republican Party," assembled in convention (Ard Fheis) at Dublin and voted De Valera down, 223-218, on a question of policy after two days of secret sessions. Thwarted, Mr. de Valera resigned his "presidency," at last...
Before the Sinn Fein Rebellion of 1916, Mr. de Valera had taught Mathematics, Latin, French at various Roman Catholic colleges in Dublin. Since that time, he has suffered various terms of imprisonment, including a life sentence. But such is fate that he is now free, the leader of the second largest party in the Free State-the Republican-and a national figure whose constitutional theories do not fit in with those of the majority of his countrymen or with the sentiments of the people of Britain. More than that, he is still Chancellor of the National University of Ireland...
...Irish Republic, independence and unity of the Irish people. There was this difference, however: he failed to incite the crowd to violence; he committed himself to a peaceful policy of establishing the republic by the power of the vote; he expressed himself as forever faithful to the "Sinn Fein Constitution." Said...
...time there undoubtedly existed in England a warm affection and considerable sympathy for the people of the six counties* of the North. Since the settlement of the Sinn Fein disturbances of the post-War era in 1922, the Northerners have displayed an attitude of recalcitrancy which has alienated most of the support upon which they could once have counted in the United Kingdom and abroad...