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 (slogan) the original for this is 'Ourselves—or "."' The glossary at the end of the volume renders "sinn féin" as "we ourselves". A nationalist play by "Tom Telephone" (Thomas Stanislaus Cleary) published in 1882 was entitled "Shin Fain; or Ourselves Alone". In James Joyce's novel "Ulysses", set in 1904, The Citizen, a boorish nationalist partly modelled on Michael Cusack, shouts "Sinn Féin! Sinn Féin amháin!" during an altercation with Leopold Bloom; these were also the titles of two nationalist ballads. The name was adopted by Arthur Griffith for the "Sinn Féin policy" he presented in 1905, and the Sinn Féin party