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> as lemmasFianna Fáil Fianna Fáil n. /ˈfiːənə fɔɪl/ [ < Irish fianna, plural (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 Latin 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 phrase 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 phrase as meaning ‘soldiers of destiny’. (A. J. Bliss.)< |