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...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...
...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...
...Sinn Fein ultra-die-hards such a program is too milky-mild. They hold that "the Irish Free State is not Irish, is not free, and is not a state."? They are still out for cracked crowns and shillalahing upon the green. They will have none of "working from within...
...What Irishman, uncoupled from the Sinn Fein, has founded a new political party...