Intro: Founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith Sinn Fein was a small party with little influence on the political scene but a mistaken association with the Easter Rising of 1916 was to reinvigorate the party and see it grow into the biggest political party in Ireland after the 1918 general election.
P1. Early Sinn Fein 1905-1910 (1916). pages 106/107 (chapter 8: under new forms of nationalism)
P2. Association with the Rising (the revival of Sinn Fein pg 143)
P3. Second Sinn Fein and the Ard-Fheis and organisation (page 143-4)
P4. The Irish Convention (page 144)
P5. The decline of the Home Rule Party
P6. The German plot
P7. The conscription Crisis
P8. Labour did not contest the election
P9. Voting, new voters, women
P10. Results
Conclusion: recap on NB reasons, include decline of HR, actions of the British Government, Association with the Rising etc
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Fortunes of Sinn Fein 1900-1923
