Michael John "Mick" Collins1918
Collins is elected Member of Parliament for Cork South, Sinn Fein do not take their seats in Westminster, but instead set up an Irish Parliament in Dublin
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Collins is elected Member of Parliament for Cork South, Sinn Fein do not take their seats in Westminster, but instead set up an Irish Parliament in Dublin
Sinn Fein wins 73 of Irelands 105 seats in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Parliament at the general election and many of the seats it won were uncontested
Sinn Fein win 73 seats but refuse to sit at Westminster
In the local elections Sinn Fein win control of all the county councils except Antrim, Down, Londonderry and Armagh. In the 1920 city council elections, Sinn Fein gain control of ten of the twelve city councils in Ireland, only Belfast and Derry remain under Unionist and IPP (respectively) control
After the success of IRA hunger strikers in mobilising support and winning elections on an Anti H-Block platform in 1981, republicans increasingly devote time and resources to electoral politics, through the Sinn Fein party
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