Sinn Féin

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Despard
CD 's younger brother, later Sir John French , had a high-profile military career. He became a Field Marshal in 1913 and commander of the British Expeditionary Force in Europe at the start of the...
Family and Intimate relationships Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
ENC 's father, Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, was born in about 1903 and lived until 1970.
Ó Cuilleanáin, Cormac, editor. “Authorbiography”. CormacMillar.com, 22 Jan. 2014.
The birthdate of Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin the elder is inferred from the statements of Cormac the younger that at...
Family and Intimate relationships Eva Gore-Booth
EGB 's elder sister Constance (later Countess Markievicz ) was an Irish patriot and the first woman MP in Britain (though as a member of Sinn Féin she did not take her seat). The sisters'...
Occupation Constance Countess Markievicz
While CCM was imprisoned the Dail was declared illegal and Sinn Féin , Cumann na mBan , and other groups were proscribed. Following her release, she remained head of the Labour ministry and joined her...
politics Constance Countess Markievicz
Constance, Countess Markievicz, joined the women's nationalist group Inghinidhe na hEireann (Daughters of Ireland ), founded by Maud Gonne in 1900. She joined Sinn Féin , too, this year.
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988.
61-2, 73
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
politics Constance Countess Markievicz
Constance, Countess Markievicz, was elected to the executive of Sinn Féin , newly reorganized by Eamon De Valera .
Coxhead, Elizabeth. Daughters of Erin: Five Women of the Irish Renascence. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
102
Marreco, Anne. The Rebel Countess: The Life and Times of Constance Markievicz. Chilton Books, 1967.
236
politics Constance Countess Markievicz
Constance, Countess Markievicz, was arrested along with other Sinn Féin leaders (including Maud Gonne ) on the pretext of a German Plot, and imprisoned in Holloway Jail ; she was not released until 10 March 1919.
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988.
182, 189
politics Constance Countess Markievicz
Standing from prison for the constituency of St Patrick's, Dublin, Constance, Countess Markievicz, became the first woman elected to the British Parliament ; but, following Sinn Féin policy, she did not take her seat at Westminster.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
356
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman, 1983.
68-9
politics Constance Countess Markievicz
Constance, Countess Markievicz, resigned as President of Cumann na mBan (the women's council of the Irish Volunteers ) in order to join Fianna Fail (Soldiers of Destiny ), a party formed by Eamon De Valera
politics Constance Countess Markievicz
She was also elected to the committee that produced the new Inine journal Bean na h-Eireann (meaning woman of Ireland).She was introduced to the Inine group by Helena Molony , an activist who met...
politics Constance Countess Markievicz
CCM held training camps for the boys (initially at her home) at which, with Helena Molony and others, she gave them lessons in Gaelic, drills, and firearm handling. The new group was criticized by Arthur Griffith
politics Charlotte Despard
CD resigned from Sinn Fein .
Mulvihill, Margaret. Charlotte Despard: A Biography. Pandora, 1989.
162-3
politics Constance Countess Markievicz
Despite her focus on the ICA, CCM maintained a passionate involvement with many (sometimes conflicting) groups, such as Sinn Féin , the Irish Republican Brotherhood , and the Irish Volunteers .
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988.
104, 118, 121
politics Constance Countess Markievicz
About half of the seventy-three Sinn Fein members who were elected were still imprisoned. Sinn Féin boycotted the House of Commons and formed the republican parliament Dail Eireann in Dublin.
Marreco, Anne. The Rebel Countess: The Life and Times of Constance Markievicz. Chilton Books, 1967.
243, 245
Coxhead, Elizabeth. Daughters of Erin: Five Women of the Irish Renascence. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
104-5
politics Charlotte Despard
After moving to Ireland, CD campaigned strongly for Sinn Fein , well into her old age though not until the end of her life. At Roebuck House she was watched by a plain-clothes detective working...

Timeline

21 April 1907: The Cumann na nGaedheal and Dungannon Clubs...

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21 April 1907

The Cumann na nGaedheal and Dungannon Clubs merged to form the Sinn Féin League in Ireland.
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
611
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
339

1909: The new Sinn Féin League (the Irish Republican...

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1909

The new Sinn Féin League (the Irish Republican party) officially supported women's suffrage, but argued that the women's vote must wait until after Ireland gained independence.
McKillen, Beth. “Irish Feminism and Nationalist Separatism, 1914-23”. Éire-Ireland, Vol.
17
, No. 3, 4, 1982, pp. 52 - 67, 72.
55-6

11 April 1912: Asquith brought forward the Liberal party's...

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11 April 1912

Asquith brought forward the Liberal party 's third Home Rule Bill for Ireland (since 1886) in return for election support from John Redmond of the Irish Party .
“Living Heritage. Parliament and Ireland. Third Home Rule Bill”. www. parliament.uk.

December 1914: Sinn Féin, the newspaper organized in 1906...

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December 1914

Sinn Féin, the newspaper organized in 1906 by Arthur Griffith as a vehicle of the Irish nationalist group Sinn Féin , was suppressed.
Hickey, D. J., and J. E. Doherty. A New Dictionary of Irish History From 1800. Gill and Macmillan, 2003.
446

After April 1916: The executions and arrests that followed...

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After April 1916

The executions and arrests that followed the Easter Rising in Ireland aided Sinn Féin in becoming a mass movement.
Hickey, D. J., and J. E. Doherty. A New Dictionary of Irish History From 1800. Gill and Macmillan, 2003.
443

April 1917: The Irish Women's Franchise League was denied...

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April 1917

The Irish Women's Franchise League was denied representation at the Sinn Féin All-Ireland conference because it refused to attend as a nationalist organisation.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
114

25 October 1917: Sinn Féin, reorganized by Cathal Brugha and...

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25 October 1917

Sinn Féin , reorganized by Cathal Brugha and Michael Collins , adopted a constitution. Based on its principles, Sinn Féin became a national movement on a platform of Irish national independence and the withdrawal of...

December 1918: The Irish Women's Franchise League campaigned...

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December 1918

The Irish Women's Franchise League campaigned for Winnifred Carney and Constance Markievicz , the only women Sinn Féin candidates in this month's general election.
Ward, Margaret. “’Suffrage First--Above All Else!’ An Account of the Irish Suffrage Movement”. Feminist Review, Vol.
10
, 1982, pp. 21-36.
79-80

14 December 1918: The post-war general election (sometimes...

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14 December 1918

The post-war general election (sometimes called the coupon election) was the first in which some British women (those over thirty with a property qualification of their own or their husband's) voted.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969.
166
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
356
Davies, Emily. “Chronology, Introduction”. Collected Letters, 1861-1875, edited by Ann E. Murphy and Deirdre Raftery, University of Virginia Press, 2004, p. ix - xii, xix-lv.
xlviii
“The 1918 coupon general election”. Liberal Democrat History Group.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
92
“Houses of the Oireachtas—Where it began!”. Houses of the Oireachtas / Tithe an Oireachtas.

21 January 1919: The first Dáil Éireann or Irish Constituent...

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21 January 1919

The first Dáil Éireann or Irish Constituent Assembly convened, consisting of members elected for Sinn Féin at the British election of 14 December 1918, and regarding itself as the legitimate government of Ireland.
Hickey, D. J., and J. E. Doherty. A New Dictionary of Irish History From 1800. Gill and Macmillan, 2003.
444
“Houses of the Oireachtas—Where it began!”. Houses of the Oireachtas / Tithe an Oireachtas.
“22 January 1919”. The Guardian, 22 Jan. 2016, p. 22.

16 June 1922: The Irish Free State held a General Election....

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16 June 1922

The Irish Free State held a General Election. A large majority of Sinn Féin candidates were in favour of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 6 December 1921.
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
614

17 May 2002: The general election in the Republic of Ireland...

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17 May 2002

The general election in the Republic of Ireland returned the Fianna Fail to power with thirty members and 41.5 percent of the vote. Five Sinn Féin members were elected, and six Green Party members.
Hickey, D. J., and J. E. Doherty. A New Dictionary of Irish History From 1800. Gill and Macmillan, 2003.
149, 192, 446

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