Sinn Féin : A Hundred Turbulent Years

Brian Feeney
University of Wisconsin Press
 9780299186746
0-299-18674-1

Sinn Fin ("ourselves alone") is one of the most controversial political movements in Ireland. Here, for the first time, is the complete story of the rise and falland rise againof a party that repeatedly.

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has reshaped its identity over the course of a hundred years, moving from dual monarchy to dual strategythe gun and the ballot box.From Arthur Griffith to Gerry Adams, this is a roll-call of major personalities from Irish and British history and politics, including Eamon de Valera, Countess Constance Markievicz, David Lloyd George, Michael Collins, Ruair Brdaigh, Cathal Goulding, Toms MacGiolla, Margaret Thatcher, and Martin McGuinness.Now at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Sinn Fin seems poised to play a pivotal role in the Irish political arena, north and south, well into the future. Its place in history is still being written.Copublished with the OBrien Press, Dublin.The Wisconsin edition is for sale only in North America and the Philippines.