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
Sylvia Fein Sylvia Fein Sylvia Doris (Scheuber) Fein is an American surrealist painter and author, born November 20, 1919, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She studied painting at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she became part of a group of magical realist painters, including Gertrude Abercrombie, Marshall Glasier, John Wilde, Dudley Huppler, and Karl Priebe. During this time, newspapers described Fein as “Wisconsin’s Foremost Woman Painter.” Inspired by the quattrocento, Fein paints in egg tempera, which she mixes herself by puncturing the yolk and mixing the drainage with an equal amount of water. While her paintings were always informed by Surrealism, Fein turned her