Éamon de Valera Irish independence. He was arrested, sentenced to death but released for a variety of reasons, including the public response to the British execution of Rising leaders. He returned to Ireland after being jailed in England and became one of the leading political figures of the War of Independence. After the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, de Valera served as the political leader of Anti-Treaty Sinn Fein until 1926, when he, along with many supporters, left the party to set up Fianna Fáil, a new political party which abandoned the policy of abstentionism from Dáil Éireann. From there, de Valera would
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