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The abstentionist policy of Sinn Féin MP Gerry Adams, who was West Belfast's MP until his resignation in 2011, led to an attempted legal challenge by local councillor Frank McCoubrey who argued that Shankill residents were being denied their right to representation.
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abstentionist and policy
As part of their deal, Sinn Féin agreed to abandon its abstentionist policy regarding a " six-county parliament ", as a result taking seats in the new Stormont-based Assembly and running the education and health and social services ministries in the power-sharing government.
In 1926, de Valera, supported by Lemass, sought to convince Sinn Féin to abandon its refusal to accept the existence of the Irish Free State, the legitimacy of the Dáil, and its abstentionist policy of refusing to sit in the Dáil, if elected.
The new party also had an abstentionist policy, however, in 1927 a new law forced Fianna Fáil TDs to take the oath of allegiance and take their seats in the Dáil.
In line with abstentionist Sinn Féin policy, he refused to take his seat in the British House of Commons and sat instead in the newly-convened Dáil Éireann.
When the Árd Fheis went on to pass a vote of confidence in the official Army Council ( which had already approved an end to the abstentionist policy ), Ruairí Ó Brádaigh led the minority in a walk out, and went to a prearranged meeting in Parnell Square where they announced the establishment of a ' caretaker ' executive of Sinn Féin.
However, in line with Sinn Féin abstentionist policy, she would not take her seat in the House of Commons.
On 11 March 1925 he was elected to Dáil Éireann in a by-election as a Sinn Féin TD for the Dublin North constituency, though he did not take his seat due to the abstentionist policy of Sinn Féin.
While Unionists within Northern Ireland became reconciled to their form of home rule, Nationalists remained alienated from the structures of the state and pursued an abstentionist policy.
He refuses to take his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in line with the abstentionist policy of Sinn Féin.
He did not take his seat in the 4th Dáil due to Sinn Féin's abstentionist policy.
abstentionist and Sinn
The 1982 election was followed by the 1983 Westminster election, in which Sinn Féin's vote increased and Gerry Adams was elected, as an abstentionist, as MP for Belfast West.
These bureaucratic intrigues happened at the very moment that the Irish abstentionist party, Sinn Féin, and the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) were launching their own independence campaign.
Ryan was later imprisoned again during the subsequent Civil War, however, while interned he won back his Dáil seat as an abstentionist Sinn Féin TD at the 1923 general election.
Running on an abstentionist ticket, Sinn Féin won 4 seats including Eighneachán Ó hAnnluain, John Joe McGirl and John Joe Rice.
Sinn Féin members contest elections to the British parliament on an abstentionist basis, that is, they refuse to take their seats in that parliament as they refuse to accept the right of that body to rule in any part of Ireland.
* 3 February-Count George Noble Plunkett, father of Joseph Mary Plunkett, wins Roscommon North on an abstentionist Sinn Féin platform.
Upon his release Lynch resumed his paramilitary activities and was elected as an abstentionist Sinn Féin Member of Parliament for Kerry South at the 1918 Westminster Election, becoming a Member of the 1st Dáil.
In 1918 the Volunteers, the Irish National League, and Count Plunkett's followers, the Liberty Clubs agreed to merge under the Sinn Féin banner with Éamon de Valera as President to fight the 1918 general election on an abstentionist platform.
He was released under general amnesty in June 1917 and was elected as an abstentionist Sinn Féin Member of Parliament for Kerry West in the 1918 Westminster election, becoming a member of the 1st Dáil.
He was automatically elected as an abstentionist member of the House of Commons of Southern Ireland and a member of the 2nd Dáil as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála for Kerry – Limerick West at the 1921 elections.
In 1950, McAteer ran as a Sinn Féin candidate for the Londonderry constituency in the British general election on an independent republican abstentionist ticket.
The first Sinn Féin abstentionist candidate was Charles Dolan in 1908.
The split created " Official Sinn Féin " ( later Sinn Féin the Workers Party – SFWP ) and the abstentionist " Provisional Sinn Féin " ( PSF ).
Running on an abstentionist ticket, Sinn Féin won 4 seats at the general election including Eighneachán Ó hAnnluain, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and John Joe Rice.
abstentionist and MP
The first abstentionist MP elected was Count George Noble Plunkett after the North Roscommon by-election of 3 February 1917.
abstentionist and who
Other early abstentionist advocates included George Sigerson in 1862, and John Dillon in 1878, who envisaged abstentionist Irish MPs meeting in a separate Irish parliament.
abstentionist and was
From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he was an abstentionist Westminster Member of Parliament for Belfast West.
In June, 1927, a general election was held in which de Valera's new party, Fianna Fáil, won many seats on an abstentionist platform.
She had been impressed by the size of the abstentionist faction at the congress, and reported that Lenin has said the issue was not important during an informal discussion.
abstentionist and West
Patrick " Pat " Doherty ( born 18 July 1945 ) is an Irish republican politician and abstentionist Member of Parliament for West Tyrone.
abstentionist and led
" The RCP's critique of what they call the " voting trap " has led many other socialist groups to label them " sectarian " and " abstentionist ".
abstentionist and argued
They argued that independence for the working class is meaningless unless it is socialist, and adopted an abstentionist position towards Westminster elections.
abstentionist and .
The Anti H-Block Committee announced that they would field abstentionist candidates which many predicted correctly would take Republican votes away from Fianna Fáil.
The Anti H-Block movement fielded abstentionist candidates in solidarity with the hunger strikers, undermining the Republican credentials of Fianna Fáil.
This Act abolished common law restrictions, but took an abstentionist stance to unions internal affairs.
In recent times, particularly as a result of the enactment of the Human Rights Act 1998, the judiciary have resiled from this strict abstentionist approach, recognising that in certain circumstances it is necessary for them to undertake a more searching review of administrative decisions.
The party continues to operate on an abstentionist basis: it would not take seats in the assemblies of either the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland because it views neither as legitimate.
policy and Sinn
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.
In December 1918, republicans ( then represented by the Sinn Féin party ) won 73 Irish seats out of 105 in the 1918 General Election to the British Parliament, on a policy of abstentionism and Irish independence.
Sinn Féin has a policy of abstentionism and so its MPs refuse to take their seats in Parliament.
Under Adams, Sinn Féin changed its traditional policy of abstentionism towards Oireachtas Éireann, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, in 1986 and later took seats in the power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly.
However, Sinn Féin retains a policy of abstentionism towards the Westminster Parliament, but since 2002, receives allowances for staff and takes up offices in the House of Commons.
In line with Sinn Féin policy, he refused to take his seat in the House of Commons.
For others, however, the call to link political activity with armed struggle had been clearly defined in Sinn Féin policy and in the Presidential Addresses of Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, but it had not resonated with the young Northerners.
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.
Sinn Féin continued its policy of refusing to sit in the Westminster Parliament even after Adams won the Belfast West constituency.
He publicly supported Sinn Féin and the unification of Ireland, although in 2005 he suggested to Sinn Féin leaders that it abandon its long-standing policy of not taking seats at Westminster.
The particular object of their discontent was Sinn Féin's ending of its policy of abstentionism in the Republic of Ireland.
This oath to attend the House of Commons was seen to this day and part of the reasoning behind the Abstentionist policy of Sinn Fein and other Nationalists throughout history.
While imprisoned he secured election to Dáil Éireann for Roscommon at the 1923 general election, however, in keeping with the Sinn Féin abstention policy he refused to take his seat.
By 1926 some TDs had become disillusioned with the policy of abstention that Sinn Féin had espoused.
* On the other hand, Sinn Féin represented change and a radical new policy for achieving Irish self-government outside of the UK, and many of its Volunteer wing were ready to enforce a republic through physical force.
* Sinn Féin's policy was outlined in its election manifesto, which aimed for Irish representation and recognition at any post-war peace conference.
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