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Free State

Ireland · Politics / Sinn Fein. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1926Date range
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Chronological records

1926

Eamon de Valera1926

Politics / Sinn Fein

Having temporarily suspended armed action in the Free State, Sinn Fein splits with the departure of its leader Eamon de Valera, after having lost a motion to abandon abstention if the statement of "Fidelity to the King" were abolished

Names involved

Eamon de Valera

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