Sinn Féin

In 1919, a successor to the 1913 militant nationalist organization, the Irish Volunteers, was formed with the purpose of using armed forces to turn over British rule in Ireland. The IRA, or Irish Republican Army, fought for independence from Britain through the employment of guerilla warfare and vicious war tactics to force the British officials to reconsider their rule. After negotiations with Great Britain, two autonomous political entities were formed: Northern Ireland and the Irish Free…

When these attacks then occur, it’s unclear whether the moderates are either incapable of stopping the terrorists, or do not want to. At this time, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) was directed by an underground network comprised of Sinn Fein’s cabinet and another nationalist group, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (Bright, 1994). Their strategy at this time was spoiling, through assassinations and ambushes for symbols of the crown and collaborators. Rather than giving Ireland the…

to set up a power sharing assembly to govern Northern Ireland, by cross community consent; so essentially, Ireland could run itself again. It was reached after two years of talks, because the key decisions needed the consent of both the Dup and Sinn Fein. Its aim was to put an end to the conflict and in order to this it: reviewed policing in northern Ireland because there were claims that it was unfair, it started the decommissioning of weapons…

The discussion we were to read Los Vendidos, Trifles, and The Rising of the Moon and compare a contrast each play. With how different each play is it seemed simple to contrast them. When comparing these plays its starts with the authors and the time period when they are written. As far as that goes, these plays could not be any more different. They were performed originally 50 years apart, and 1000 miles apart. The plot of each story is also drastically diverse. However, they also share many…

In Michael Mays’ book Nation States: The Cultures of Irish Nationalism, he discussed a political cartoon by the editorial cartoonist David Horsey from 1991, which basically suggested that ‘the IRA’s raison d’etre rests solely in a mad campaign of vicious self -perpetuation: “I bomb, therefore I am”’ (Mays, 2007, p149). This cartoon proposed that the only reason the IRA could be as prominent and effective as they were, was their own awareness that the only way to be taken seriously would be…

wishes, to be apart from the North East and create independence of a self-governing republic government of Ireland . In Easter 1916 the Irish Home Rule party proclaimed that the Republic of Ireland was to be created and after the majority vote of Sinn Fein in the 1918 general election, he proceeded to establish his own parliament and government . The way in which the Anglo-Irish treaty was agreed were down to different terms in which the British had put forward to the Irish Free State…

As a of a victim of colonization, Ireland has a long history of patriotic writers that comment on the effects of British colonialism, as well as themes of nationalism and conservatism through their writings. The introduction of Gothic literature, and its fearful conventions of the supernatural and the uncanny, has allowed Irish writers to align nationalist motifs within their texts through a more analogous narrative. As Laura Doyle writes, “The Gothic text has been shown to represent colonialism…

The Fighting Irish Ireland is a country built on war. Throughout its history, it has been conquered, divided, won and lost wars. Even today, the island remains separated into two parts, one belonging to the Republic of Ireland and the other a member of the United Kingdom. The most substantial factor early on was the religion and today the clash between the north and the south is on economic issues. The north, which is part of UK, fairs better economically than the south, which is the…

long run the poor way that England handled the situation led to the aftermath of the revolt taking hold and giving birth to a political revolution instead (Walsh 13). For Irish nationalists Easter 1916 was the rebirth of their nation and led to the Sinn Fein’s landslide victory in the 1918 election. “Then came a war of independence against Britain from 1919 to 1921 and the creation of the Irish Free State” (Reynolds 37). The British reaction to the uprising gave the people of Ireland a renewed…

passed the Prevention of a Terrorism Act, outlawing the IRA in Britain. The IRA announced a cease-fire in 1994, causing hope to accumulate. During the cease-fire, Sinn Fein began participating in meetings with Britain, which was put to a stop when bombings were renewed by the IRA.After the IRA's announcement of a new cease-fire in 1997, Sinn Féin was given permission to participate in the meetings that took place in September of 1997, which later resulted in a treaty that made for a new Northern…