Word: sinn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of waiting for a peaceful end to the partition of their country, the Irish from time to time turn to thoughts of violence. When they do, they think of the Irish Republican Army, an outgrowth of the Sinn Fein movement, which has a romantic place in the Irish imagination. Last week, after the I.R.A.'s audacious raid on a British army barracks just 40 miles west of London, the thoughts grew bolder. "This will bring recruits by the dozen," predicted one Irish observer...
...Weeds. In Paris, finally, she met the man she wanted to marry: John MacBride, "a wiry, soldierly looking man, with red hair and skin burned brick red by the South African sun" (where he had been commander of a volunteer brigade fighting for the Boers against the British). Wrote Sinn Feiner Arthur Griffith to them: "For your own sakes and for the sake of Ireland to whom you both belong, don't get married." But they did, with joy plotting together enough potential terrorism to sink the British Empire. But temperament drove them apart, and two years later they...
...demonstrations in Belfast today. Remembering some slight disturbances last March, when a few of the boys worked over some shops and a police station, the Ulster government is wary of a new gathering. And perhaps they're right. It is a glorious sight when the lads of the Sinn Fein go swinging down the road, keeping time to the tap of their shillelaghs on the cobblestones; but feelings do run high...
...Socialist. Neither Nehru nor his followers are very clear about what Nehru's Socialism involves. Nehru turned to Socialism as he turned to champion the Boers, the Sinn Feiners, the Suffragettes, or Republican Spain: because he has a heartfelt sympathy for the underdog. The closest he has come to defining his idea of practical Socialism is a "democratic commonwealth" with the key means of production owned by the state, but much industry in private hands. This is what he has striven for in India, but he has plainly agreed to postpone plans for large-scale nationalization...