Candidates In Irish Gaol
BELFAST (Northern Ireland), October 7. From the cells of Belfast Prison seven Irish candidates are fighting for votes in the British general election even though all of them are pledged to boycott the British Parliament.
Two of them are given an even chance of winning their constituencies—in spite of being already banned from taking a seat at Westminster because of their prison sentences. The seven are members of the extremist Irish Republican Party, the Sinn Fein which has put up candidates in all 12 constituencies in Northern Ireland.
The intervention of the Sinn Fein has produced a situation which has no parallel in the election campaign in any other part of Britain.
The organisation has been proscribed as illegal by the Northern Ireland Government, which regards it as the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29021, 9 October 1959, Page 11
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