Sinn Feinn.

1905 United Irishman 18 Mar. 4/4 The Sinn Fein policy which we have propounded for Ireland, will henceforth be the policy of the National Council.

1906 A. Griffith Sinn Fein Policy 4 The policy for which the National Council stands is summarised in its title—‘Sinn Fein’.

1906 A. Griffith Sinn Fein Policy 32 Increase of employment, industrial effort and advancement should be everywhere the principal means towards the national aims of Sinn Fein Policy.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 25 July 2/1 The Sinn Féin policy of resisting taxation by an alien government.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 31 Aug. 7/1 Sinn Fein is not as yet a movement of much political moment.

1920 Public Opinion 16 July 58/3 The intellectual leaders of Sinn Fein can by no means bind the extremists.

1921 Punch 12 Jan. 28/1 Remarkable that I detected no outward evidence of Sinn Fein.

1930 W. K. Hancock Australia x. 213 Labour politicians preached Australia for the Australians and a sort of Sinn Fein exclusiveness.

1936 E. Curtis Hist. Ireland xx. 386 Sinn Fein came out as a political force by winning an election in Roscommon in February 1917.

1944 M. J. MacManus Eamon de Valera iv. 69 De Valera..had been co-opted on the National Council of Sinn Fein after his release.

1955 Times 16 May 3/5 The fact that Sinn Fein has put forward candidates for West Belfast, Mid-Ulster, [etc.]..may mean that a Unionist gain will be recorded.

1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship ii. 29 He looked over-excited, as if he were about to..lead a small raid for the Sinn Fein.

1971 Eire Nua: Soc. & Econ. Programme of Sinn Fein 3 The Constitution of Sinn Fein advocates not merely the complete overthrow of English rule in Ireland but also the setting up of a Democratic Socialist Republic.

1972 R. Kee Green Flag ix. 452 From May 1905 Griffith's new policy generally began to be called the ‘Sinn Fein’ rather than the ‘Hungarian’ policy. The suggestion for the new name had been made to him by a young woman named Mary Butler, late in 1904, though the words had long been fairly commonly used as a motto for Irish self-reliance and had in fact been the early motto of the Gaelic League.

1978 P. Boardman Worlds of Patrick Geddes vii. 248 The never-ending nemesis of Sinn Fein Rebellion.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 31 Aug. 7/1 Sinn Feiners further suggest that the Irish representatives, having withdrawn from Westminster, should assemble in Dublin.

1918 49th Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. Ireland 3 This Office was occupied by the Sinn Féiners during the Dublin Rebellion.

1928 Daily Express 17 Nov. 3/5 The Sinn Feiners desired to strengthen this protest by obtaining the withdrawal from Parliament of the whole O'Brien party.

1945 R. Chandler Let. 1 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1981) 41 I have a great many Irish relatives..some of them Sinn Feiners.

1979 W. Nelson Minstrel Code ix. 75 The spot where Sinn Feiners gunned down a British Field-Marshall, Sir Henry Wilson, in 1922, on the doorstep of his home.

1907 Daily Chron. 13 Aug. 6/2 Sir Thomas Esmonde's action in adopting Sinn Feinism as against Parliamentary agitation.

1917 A. Huxley Let. May (1969) 124 The best part of political life after the war will be an unofficial Sinn Feinism.