Word: sinn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...results of the election itself were hardly more comforting. Sinn Fein, the political wing of the I.R.A., made an impressive showing by picking up five of the assembly's 78 seats. It was the first time Sinn Fein had taken part in an election under its own banner in 20 years. Though the mainstream Social Democratic and Labor Party won 14 seats and thus remains the primary Catholic party, Sinn Fein's surprising performance indicated support for the I.R.A.'s violent ways. The Protestant parties, as predicted, captured most of the votes: the Official Unionist Party claimed...
...strong showing made by Sinn Fein may pump new life into the I.R.A...
...that families of the final six fasting inmates would not permit their men to die. They were following the lead of four other families who intervenedwith Maze authorities to save prisoners lives. Three other strikers decided to abandon the fast on their own. Richard McAuley, a leader of the Sinn Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A., has admitted that under such circumstances the hunger strike was placing "little or no pressure" on the British to yield to the prisoners' demands for political status, though the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had shown no indication of doing...
...Savannah, Georgia, the Sinn Fein Society sponsored the city's 157th Irish parade--which drew 20,000 people--and then served a breakfast of green grits to city residents...