Michael O'Flanagan States in April 1925 to help Sinn Féin contest a number of by-elections. That summer he was suspended from clerical duties and forbidden to say mass because of his nationalist activities and anti-clerical speeches he had made in America. In March 1926, the Sinn Féin ard fheis narrowly defeated de Valera's proposal to enter the Free State Oireachtas if the Oath of Allegiance were removed. O'Flanagan sided with the majority. De Valera left to found Fianna Fáil, which eclipsed Sinn Féin at the June 1927 election. O'Flanagan remained with the reduced Sinn Féin. Bishop Coyne died in July 1926, but
Monroe Fein Monroe Fein Lieutenant Monroe Fein (1923–1982) was a U.S. Naval Officer and decorated veteran of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Later on, he was the captain of the ill-fated "Altalena" on behalf of the Irgun at the beginning of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Monroe Fein was born in Chicago to a middle-class Jewish family in 1923. His father was a lawyer and a donor to Zionist causes. As a child, he excelled in sports such as swimming, running, and boxing. When Fein entered university, he made good use his physical abilities in encounters with antisemites. Following the outbreak