Leader of Fianna Fáil Leader of Fianna Fáil The Leader of Fianna Fáil is the most senior politician within the Fianna Fáil political party in Ireland. Since 26 January 2011, the office has been held by Micheál Martin, following the resignation of Taoiseach Brian Cowen as leader of the party. The post of Leader of Fianna Fáil was officially created in 1926 when Éamon de Valera founded the party. De Valera had previously been leader of Sinn Féin and took the Anti-Treaty side during the Civil War. The new party essentially became a home for dissatisfied Sinn Féin TDs who had become disillusioned with
Sylvia Fein Sylvia Fein Sylvia Doris (Scheuber) Fein is an American surrealist painter and author, born November 20, 1919, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She studied painting at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she became part of a group of magical realist painters, including Gertrude Abercrombie, Marshall Glasier, John Wilde, Dudley Huppler, and Karl Priebe. During this time, newspapers described Fein as “Wisconsin’s Foremost Woman Painter.” Inspired by the quattrocento, Fein paints in egg tempera, which she mixes herself by puncturing the yolk and mixing the drainage with an equal amount of water. While her paintings were always informed by Surrealism, Fein turned her