Word: sinn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When The Return of the Hero was published in 1923 under the pseudonym "Michael Ireland," curious readers wondered who the author was, decided it must be James Stephens (The Crock of Gold, Etched in Moonlight). Such flattery persuaded the late Darrell Figgis to reveal his identity. A Sinn Féiner, he used to run guns into Ireland from Germany for the Irish Volunteers, was arrested in 1916 following the Dublin insurrection, became a member of the Dáil Eireann (Irish Free State Parliament). The year after The Return of the Hero was published, his wife shot herself...