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Fian(n)|fiːn|
[Irish fian, pl. fianna orig. ‘band of hunters’. The form fiann is a back-formation from the plural.]
1. A legendary Irish warrior, one of the soldiers of Fionn mac Cumhail; = Fenian n. 1.
1787M. Young (title) Ancient Gælic poems respecting the race of the Fians, collected in the Highlands of Scotland in the years 1784–1786. 1879[see Fenian n. 1]. 1891J. G. Campbell Fians p. xii, The Fian heroes are to this day prominent in proverbs and riddles. 1909D. A. Mackenzie Elves & Heroes p. ix, The Ossianic or Fian Cycle. 1932Irish Free State Official Handbk. iv. 45 About the same time [sc. end of 3rd cent.] we trace the establishment in Ireland of permanent military forces, the Fiana, adopted, no doubt, in imitation of the Roman military organisation. 1967D. Edwards-Rees Ireland's Story ii. 13 In the third century a.d. Cormac the High King had a standing force of professional warriors called the Fianna.
2. Fianna Fáil |ˈfiːənə fɔɪl|. [Ir. fianna pl. (see sense 1) + fál (see below).] An Irish political organization and party which was founded in 1926 and entered the Dail Eireann in 1927.
Irish Fáil is the genitive of fál ‘defensive fortification’, and is cognate with L. vallum wall n.1 It was applied to the rampart of mountains surrounding the central plain of Ireland, so that Inis Fáil ‘island of the rampart’ came to mean ‘Ireland’. The phr. Fianna Fáil was used in 15th-cent. poetry in the neutral sense ‘people of Ireland.’ The founders of the Fianna Fáil party, however, interpreted the phr. as meaning ‘soldiers of destiny’. (A. J. Bliss.)
1927Observer 27 Mar. 20/2 Fianna Fail—Mr De Valera's Republicans. 1933[see all-over adj. phr. 3]. 1958Listener 9 Oct. 571/2 Fianna Fail is trying to get rid of Proportional Representation. 1971Times 18 Aug. 2/3 Pressure inside the ruling Fianna Fail Party for stronger action on Northern Ireland. |