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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.

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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."

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Stephens was an ardent Sinn Feiner and helped in the struggle against the British, but in later years became estranged from Ireland.

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Then, some 27 hours later, an American plane was spotted streaking past Belfast like a Sinn Feiner ducking the Black and Tans.

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Especially did it flash across my mind when, bringing back to Dun's Hospital a dead Sinn Feiner, the famous document fell out of his pocket, which is strikingly similar in thought to my friend's prognostications.

From Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics by Redmond-Howard, L. G., (Louis George)