The Irish Republican political party, Sinn Féin is also known to have close political links to the Cuban government.

The Cuban government supported and still supports the Republican cause, but opposed the attacks which took place on civilian targets by Sinn Féin's military ally, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and of course attacks on civilians by their loyalist enemies such as the Ulster Volunteer Force and Ulster Defence Association.

In a 1986 statement, he rejected " the legitimacy of an Army Council styling itself the Council of the Irish Republican Army which lends support to any person or organisation styling itself as Sinn Féin and prepared to enter the partition parliament of Leinster House.

These changes within the military wing of the Republican Movement were accompanied by changes in the political wing and at the 1986 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis ( party conference ), which followed the IRA Convention, the party's policy of abstentionism, which forbade Sinn Féin elected representatives from taking seats in the Oireachtas, the parliament of Ireland, was dropped.

The traditionalists, having lost at both conventions, walked out of the Mansion House, met that evening at the West County Hotel, and reformed as Republican Sinn Féin ( RSF ).

A senior source from Republican Sinn Féin said: " We would see them purported new leadership as just another splinter group that has broken away.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

* July 13 – A Republican Sinn Féin bomb explodes outside of a hotel in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, disrupting a wedding reception and injuring 17 people.

This minority, which rejected dropping the policy of abstentionism, now nominally distinguishes itself from Provisional Sinn Féin by using the name Republican Sinn Féin ( or Sinn Féin Poblachtach ), and maintains that they are the true Sinn Féin republicans.

Over time, Adams and others pointed to Republican electoral successes in the early and mid-1980s, when hunger strikers Bobby Sands and Kieran Doherty were elected to the British House of Commons and Dáil Éireann respectively, and they advocated that Sinn Féin become increasingly political and base its influence on electoral politics rather than paramilitarism.

Opponents in Republican Sinn Féin accused Sinn Féin of " selling out " by agreeing to participate in what it called " partitionist assemblies " in the Republic and Northern Ireland.

A small but significant minority of Irish people, usually attached to parties like Sinn Féin and the smaller Republican Sinn Féin, denied the right of the twenty-six county state to use the name Republic and continued to refer to the state as the Free State.

He had initially indicated a willingness to contest the June 1927 general election as a Sinn Féin candidate but withdrew after the Irish Republican Army threatened to court-martial any member under IRA General Army Order 28, which forbade its members from standing in elections.

Republican Sinn Féin is the only party in Ireland which subscribes to the view that the seven-member Army Council of the Continuity IRA is the legitimate governmental authority of the Irish Republic.

The last IRA veteran of the Irish War of Independence, Dan Keating, who died in 2007, also supported Republican Sinn Féin.

* The IRB: The Irish Republican Brotherhood from The Land League to Sinn Féin, Owen McGee, Four Courts Press, 2005, ISBN 1-85182-972-5

When the Free State started to execute Republican prisoners, the first to be shot were four young men who had left Na Fianna to join the Republican Army.

There was a general reorganisation of the Republican Movement when the prisoners were all released by 1947. The IRA took Na Fianna under its wing.

At this time New Recruits Like Inchicore Republican John McGrath Joined Fianna Eireann, He would go on to be a high Ranking Member of Fianna Eireann. There was no one place that Na Fianna could claim as their Headquarters, and they depended on the use of old buildings that were in Republican ownership, or owned by Republican sympathisers.

Republican commemorations were constantly being held and Na Fianna was obliged to turn out in full to them.

The Na Fianna Éireann linked to Republican Sinn Féin claims to be the legitimate Na Fianna Éireann on the basis of Irish republican legitimatism.

* Na Fianna Éireann-official website ( linked to Republican Sinn Féin )

In August 1909, with Constance Markievicz, he founded Na Fianna Éireann as a Republican scouting movement.

Donaghy had been a member of Fianna Éireann, an IRA-linked Republican youth movement.

Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party, more commonly known as Fianna Fáil () is a centrist to centre-right Irish republican and conservative political party in Ireland, founded on 23 March 1926.

** Fianna Fáil, a centrist Irish party also known as the Republican Party

In more recent history, the name Fianna Éireann has been used by a number of Irish Republican organisations.

In support of this, the Dublin Brigade's Fianna Éireann marched to The Smithfield where they were reviewed by senior Republican leaders.

For years he posed as a leading Fianna officer and Republican.

Following the 1969 / 70 split in the Irish Republican Army and Sinn Féin, two organisations claiming the title of Fianna Éireann emerged.

Another extant Fianna group is linked to the 32 County Sovereignty Movement and allegedly to the Real Irish Republican Army.

The dominant leaders in the new unilaterally declared Irish Republic were figures like Éamon de Valera, President of Dáil Éireann ( 1919 – 21 ), President of the Republic ( 1921 – 1922 ), and Michael Collins, Minister for Finance, head of the IRB and the Irish Republican Army's Director of Intelligence.

His father was a veteran of the 1916 Easter Rising and a former adjutant in the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) who was elected to Dáil Éireann in 1944 as a Fianna Fáil candidate.

Volunteers fought for Irish independence in 1916's Easter Rising, and were joined by the Irish Citizen Army, Cumann na mBan and Fianna Éireann to form the Irish Republican Army.

Bulmer Hobson, co-founder of the republican boy-scouts, Fianna Éireann, and member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, believed the IRB should use the formation of the Ulster Volunteers as an " excuse to try to persuade the public to form an Irish volunteer force ".

* Members: Piaras Béaslaí ( Irish Republican Brotherhood ( IRB )), Sir Roger Casement ( GL ), Eamonn Ceannt ( IRB, GL, SF ), John Fitzgibbon ( GL, SF ), Liam Gogan, Bulmer Hobson ( IRB, Fianna Éireann ( FÉ )), Michael J.

In 1986 it reversed its original policy of not taking seats in Dáil Éireann, prompting another split, when Republican Sinn Féin was formed.

* Republican Sinn Féin was formed in 1986 by former Sinn Féin leader Ruairí Ó Brádaigh who led traditional republicans in a break with Sinn Féin over the ending of the policy of abstention in relation to elections to Dáil Éireann.

* 22 June-Piaras Béaslaí, member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, member of Dáil Éireann, author, playwright, biographer and translator ( born 1881 ).

* March 22-Senior officer Rory O ' Connor declares that the Irish Republican Army will no longer obey Dáil Éireann.

As a teenager, he joined the republican youth movement, Fianna Éireann, and then the Irish Republican Army.

Breen was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1923 general election as a Republican, anti-Treaty Teachta Dála ( TD ) for the Tipperary constituency.

However his early activism was confined to Fianna Éireann and then the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) and as a result he was interned in Crumlin Road Gaol during the Second World War.

In the early years of their existence, people from a broad political spectrum – from Fianna Fáil to Sinn Féin – wore lilies, which were sold by members of those political parties as well as the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ), Fianna Éireann, and Conradh na Gaeilge.

Kathleen Ryan was one of the eight children of Séamus Ryan, a member of Seanad Éireann and his wife Agnes Ryan née Harding who came from Kilfeacle and Solohead respectively in County Tipperary and who were Republican activists during the Irish War of Independence.

Cumann na mBan continued to exist after the Treaty, forming ( alongside Sinn Féin, the Irish Republican Army, Fianna Éireann and other groups ) part of the Irish republican milieu.

In the 1986 split in the Republican Movement, O ’ Doherty sided with Republican Sinn Féin and refused to recognise the legitimacy of Dáil Éireann in Leinster House.