Sinn Féin for nine years. (It merged with two other organisations to form Fine Gael in 1933.) Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin members continued to boycott the Dáil. At a special "Ard Fheis" in March 1926, de Valera proposed that elected members be allowed to take their seats in the Dáil if and when the controversial Oath of Allegiance was removed. When his motion was defeated, de Valera resigned from Sinn Féin; on 16 May 1926, he founded his own party, Fianna Fáil, which was dedicated to republicanising the Free State from within its political structures. He took most Sinn Féin TDs with him.
Robert Fein Robert Fein Robert Fein (9 December 1907 – 2 January 1975) was an Austrian weightlifter. He competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in Vienna. In 1936 he won the gold medal in the lightweight class after sharing the win with Anwar Mesbah. He was Jewish; he was one of a number of Jewish athletes who won medals at the Nazi Olympics in Berlin in 1936. In 1937 he was decorated with the Gold Medal for Service to the Republic of Austria. Dr. George Eisen of Nazareth College included Fein on his list of Jewish Olympic