In 2006, it co-signed the St Andrews Agreement and accepted the Police Service of Northern Ireland. This led to the Good Friday Agreement and created the Northern Ireland Assembly. In the 1990s, Sinn Féin-under the leadership of Adams and Martin McGuinness-was involved in the Northern Ireland peace process. In 1986, it dropped its abstentionist policy for the Dáil some members formed Republican Sinn Féin in protest. When Gerry Adams became party leader in 1983, electoral politics became increasingly important. Although the party sat on local councils, it had a policy of abstentionism for the British parliament and the Irish parliament Dáil Éireann, standing for election but vowing not to take their seats. For most of the conflict, there were broadcasting bans on Sinn Féin in the Irish media and in the British media. During the Troubles, Sinn Féin was associated with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). The current Sinn Féin party took shape in 1970 after another split, the other faction eventually becoming the Workers' Party. The party split in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War, giving rise to the two traditionally dominant parties of Irish politics: Fianna Fáil, and Cumann na nGaedheal (which became Fine Gael). Its members founded the First Dáil and the revolutionary Irish Republic during the Irish War of Independence. The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith.
Sinn Féin ( / ʃ ɪ n ˈ f eɪ n/ shin FAYN, Irish: English: " Ourselves") is an Irish republican and democratic socialist political party active throughout both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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