History of Fianna Fáil History of Fianna Fáil Fianna Fáil was founded on 23 March 1926 when a group of Dail deputies led by Éamon de Valera split from Sinn Féin. This happened because de Valera's motion calling for elected members be allowed to take their seats in the Dáil, if and when the controversial Oath of Allegiance was removed, failed to pass at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis. The new party adopted its name on 2 April of the same year. From the formation of the first Fianna Fáil government on 9 March 1932 until the 2011 general election, the party was in
Sinn Féin (newspaper) Patrick, the Virgin Mary, and The Pilgrim’s Progress, and reflects the explicitly religious language of the Sinn Féin propagandist Robert Lynd. Through "The United Irishman" and "Sinn Féin" Griffith demonstrated the need to arrogate legislature from the hands of the British by transferring Irish Parliament back to Dublin. However, Irish Parliamentary parties quite clearly could not agree to Griffith's urgings, as such a move would undermine the foundation of their existence in Westminster. "Sinn Féin" thus served as conduit for Griffith's opposition to The Act of Union 1800. Sinn Féin (newspaper) Sinn Féin was a weekly Irish nationalist newspaper edited