Surviving the split: Sinn Féin’s long road to independence from the IRA - The Guardian

After a century of friction, the party of Irish republicanism has finally rid itself of the whiff of sulphur and cordite

Brendan Behan, the Irish playwright, poet and novelist, said the first item on the agenda of any new Irish republican organisation is the split. Since its founding in 1905, Sinn Féin has been bedevil… [+5270 chars]

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