History of Sinn Féin 218. De Valera resigned and formed a new party, Fianna Fáil, on a platform of republicanising the Free State from within. He took the great majority of Sinn Féin support with him along with most of Sinn Féin's financial support from America. The remains of Sinn Féin fielded only 15 candidates and won only six seats in the June election, sinking to a level support not seen since before 1916. In the August 1927 by-election following the death of Constance Markievicz, SF's Cathal Ó Murchadha gained just 2.5% of the vote. Shortly after Vice-President and de facto leader MacSwiney announced
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