IRA and Sinn Fein

The IRA

The IRA was an armed movement in Ireland who fought against the British supremacy. They wanted Ireland to be an independent republic. They were of the belief, that political violence was necessary to achieve their goals. The original IRA was formed in 1917. After the peace treaty in 1997 their role as an armed organisation has ceased, and they are now presented by Sinn Fein who only use political power.

Sinn Fein

The Sinn Fein was a organisation that was founded in 1905 by a guy called Arthur Griffith. It was a party active throughout Ireland. It took its current form in 1970 after a split within the party (with the other side becoming the workers party of Ireland and has been historically associated with the provisional Irish republican army (Ira). The president for the organisation is Gerry Adams and he has been the President since 1983 Sinn Féin is a major party in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland . It is the largest nationalist party in the Northern Ireland assembly , and the second-largest overall, holding only one seat less than the Democratic Unionist Party; it has four ministerial posts in the power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive. It holds eight of Northern Ireland's 18 seats at Westminster, the second-largest bloc after the DUP. It is the third-largest party in the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.

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