Sinn Fein ("ourselves" or "we ourselves") began innocuously enough,
at least in etymology, when founder Arthur Griffith asked the
publishers of an Oldcastle paper if he might use their name for a
new political party that he was setting up. Since that 1905
founding, however, and through its journey from revolutionary
movement to potential political partner in the state it was pledged
to destroy, the modern political meaning of Sinn Fein reflects a
contradictory and tension-heavy history of Irish republicanism.
"The New Politics of Sinn Fein" is a powerful and revealing
assessment of the ideological and organizational development of
provisional republicanism since 1985.
The first half of the volume chronicles the processes of change
that transformed the republican movement from its revolutionary
origins to its current role as a civic and legislative power, while
the second half explores the ideological implications of this
transition. Arguing that the political movement remains a site of
contestation between elements of the universal and the particular,
Kevin Bean looks especially to the tensions between civic and
ethnic conceptions of identity and the nation as a way to define
Sinn Fein in its current incarnation--making this an essential
volume for anyone concerned with the contemporary state of Irish
politics.
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