What 1.-; the orig'in of the name "Sinn Foin?'" A recent*book, "The Evolution of Sinn Fein," tells this story about it. Some people, it "says, being convinced that "the freeman'r. friend is self-reliance," asked- a wellknown Irish scholar for a Gaelic phrase to express the idea. He told them a story of a country-servant in Munster sent with a horse to the fair. The horse was sold, and the servant, after some days, came back happy, but much the worse for wear, and sprawled out on the kitchen floor. To the inquiries of some neighbours who came in, as to where he had been, a"d what brought him to that state, he answered, "Sinn Fein, sinn fein." (Family matters ai'e matters for the family). - Sinn Fein is commonly translated, however, "For onrselve s alone."
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Northern Advocate, 24 June 1921, Page 5
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