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Stephens, James<\/strong>. Arthur Griffith, journalist & statesman<\/em>. Dublin: Wilson, Hartnell & Co., 1922?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rise of militant groups in the first decade of the twentieth century such as Sinn F\u00e9in, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), the Irish Citizen Army, and the Ulster Volunteers occurred for a variety of reasons: disillusionment with failed parliamentary politics and the leaders of the Irish Parliamentary Party after the fall of Parnell; the centenary of the 1798 Rebellion and re-establishing a link with physical force tactics for revolution; the effects of cultural nationalist groups like the Gaelic League and the Gaelic Athletic Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sinn Fein movement was developed by printer and writer Arthur Griffith (1872-1922). Formerly a Parnellite, Griffith established the Sinn F\u00e9in Party in 1905 based on the ideas that Ireland could \u201cestablish in [its] capital a national legislature endowed with the moral authority of the Irish nation\u201d that Britain would be forced recognize. Griffith also advocated protective tariffs to support Ireland\u2019s domestic industries. The choice of the name \u201cSinn F\u00e9in\u201d (meaning \u201cwe ourselves\u201d or \u201calone\u201d) alludes to the spirit of political, cultural, and economic independence and self-sufficiency. Griffith himself did not take part in the Easter Rising, but the newspapers had dubbed it the \u201cSinn F\u00e9in Rising,\u201d as it was an openly anti-British propagandistic body centralized in Dublin. After Easter Week, radical and more moderate republicans gathered under the banner of Sinn F\u00e9in. It gained influence through Griffith\u2019s writings that boycotted British military conscription of Irish men. In 1917, the party set forth its new agenda to \u201c[secure] the international recognition of Ireland as an independent Irish republic. Having achieved this status, the Irish people may by referendum freely choose their own form of government.\u201d In 1918, the Party swept the parliamentary elections with Eamon de Valera, the only surviving Easter Rising commander, as its leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Macnamara, Brinsley<\/strong>. The clanking of chains: a story of Sinn F\u00e9in<\/em>. New York: Brentano\u2019s, 1919.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brinsley Macnamara is the pseudonym of John Weldon (1890-1963), who is best remembered for his controversial first novel The Valley of the Squinting Windows<\/em> (1918). In The Clanking of Chains<\/em>, Macnamara satirizes the romantic nationalism and the pettiness he saw fueling patriotism during the War of Independence. Some critics considered it his worst novel, mainly for the lack of characterization. Macnamara was also a successful playwright, who, along with Sean O\u2019Casey and George Shiels, helped keep the Abbey Theatre financially stable during the difficult years after the Rising.
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Figgis, Darrell<\/strong>. Sinn F\u00e9in catechism<\/em>. [S.l.: s.n., 1918?]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This pocket-sized pamphlet presents Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s anti-British values in a question-and-answer form. Darrell Figgis was a prolific writer and published in many genres including poetry and satirical fiction. Through conversation between a father and son, The House of Success<\/em> (1921) portrays ideological differences between generations from Parnellism to the Easter Rising. Figgis also wrote The Return of the Hero<\/em> (1923) under the pseudonym Michael Ireland, which, when discovered, shocked the literary establishment for its quality and unusual choice of genre for Figgis.
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\u201cSinn Fein.\u201d Pall Mall Gazette<\/em>, 1907.
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The author blames Douglas Hyde, the Gaelic League, and their push to de-Anglicize Ireland for Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s \u201cboycott [of] England,\u201d including refusing to enlist in the British military, speaking Gaelic, and teaching Irish history and culture. Sinn Fein\u2019s success would make Ireland \u201calien in tongue, hostile in thought, and separate in government from England.\u201d The author also refers to Sinn F\u00e9in by the frequently quoted mistranslation, \u201courselves alone\u201d (it is more accurate as \u201calone\u201d or \u201cwe ourselves.\u201d) This clipping was originally laid in a copy of the journal Shanachie<\/em> (the English spelling of seanacha\u00ed, pronounced shan<\/em>-na-key, a traditional Irish storyteller).
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