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
Pal Sinn Pal Sinn Sinn Lap-man (born 17 March 1959) is a Hong Kong musician and actor, primarily known as bass player of the band Blue Jeans. Sinn is noted for his roles as Ximen Qing in "The Reincarnation of Golden Lotus", for which he received Hong Kong Film Award nomination for Best New Performer. Sinn was born and raised in Hong Kong, where he attended the Lung Cheung Government Technical Secondary School since 1970. At 16, Sinn began his career as a singer at a bar on Lockart Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong. In 1986, Sinn joined Chyna, a heavy metal rock