The phrase "Sinn Féin" is Irish for "Ourselves" or "We Ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone" (from "Sinn Féin Amháin", an early-20th-century slogan). The name is an assertion of Irish national

Sinn Féin is an Irish republican, democratic socialist and left-wing party. In the European Parliament, the party aligns itself with the European United Left–Nordic Green Left

• Friends of Sinn Féin (an international organisation designed to support Sinn Féin's cause, with members in Great Britain, the United States,

^a This purposely discounts members of the Workers' Party of Ireland. Although that party at one time ran under the name "Sinn Féin" and "Sinn Féin—the Workers' Party", no member was ever

1905–1922
Sinn Féin was founded on 28 November 1905, when, at the first annual Convention of the National Council, Arthur Griffith outlined the Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin is the largest Irish republican political party, and was historically associated with the IRA, while also having been associated with the Provisional IRA in the party's modern

Northern Ireland
Devolved legislature elections
Westminster elections
Trends
Sinn Féin returned to Northern Ireland elections at the 1982 Assembly elections, winning five seats with