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  • Sinn Fein
    Sinn Fein
    noun
    a political organization in Ireland, founded about 1905, advocating the complete political separation from Great Britain of a unified Ireland.
  • Sinn Féin
    Sinn Féin
    noun
    an Irish republican political movement founded about 1905 and linked to the revolutionary Irish Republican Army: divided into a Provisional and an Official movement since a similar split in the IRA in late 1969

Sinn Fein

American  
[shin feyn] / ˈʃɪn ˈfeɪn /

noun

  1. a political organization in Ireland, founded about 1905, advocating the complete political separation from Great Britain of a unified Ireland.

  2. a member of this organization.


Sinn Féin British  
/ ˈʃɪn ˈfeːn /

noun

  1. an Irish republican political movement founded about 1905 and linked to the revolutionary Irish Republican Army: divided into a Provisional and an Official movement since a similar split in the IRA in late 1969

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Sinn Fein Cultural  
  1. An Irish political party (in Gaelic it means “Ourselves Alone”) that has long combatted Great Britain's influence in Ireland and sought the unification of Northern Ireland with the Irish republic in the south; generally considered the political portion of the Irish Republican Army. One wing of it has engaged in terrorism.


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Etymology

Origin of Sinn Fein

From Irish sinn f éin “we ourselves”