Sinn Fein
noun
a political organization in Ireland, founded about 1905, advocating the complete political separation from Great Britain of a unified Ireland.
Sinn Feiner
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a word derived from
Sinn Fein.
Sinn Féiner
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a word derived from
Sinn Féin.
Sinn Feinnouna political organization in Ireland, founded about 1905, advocating the complete political separation from Great Britain of a unified Ireland.
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He was once an ardent Sinn Feiner but, in the advent of the Free State, he supported the act which conferred upon his native land "dominion status" in the British Commonwealth of Nations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wrote Sinn Feiner Arthur Griffith to them: "For your own sakes and for the sake of Ireland to whom you both belong, don't get married."
From Time Magazine Archive
Stephens was an ardent Sinn Feiner and helped in the struggle against the British, but in later years became estranged from Ireland.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, some 27 hours later, an American plane was spotted streaking past Belfast like a Sinn Feiner ducking the Black and Tans.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The chief difficulty is the landing of the ammunition," said the Sinn Feiner.
From Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
The first volley which met a company of this battalion killed an officer; he was so strongly Nationalist in his sympathy as to be almost a Sinn Féiner.
From John Redmond's Last Years by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
The result can be best expressed by recording the experience of one Sinn Féiner who was captured in the fighting.
From John Redmond's Last Years by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
