From Bomb to Ballot: The History of Sinn Féin
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
7: Changed Utterly?
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Gerry Adams stands down as the President of Sinn Fein and is replaced by Mary Lou McDonald, a middle-class Dubliner with no personal connection to the...
6: A Fragile Peace
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Omagh, a car bomb kills 29 people, including two unborn children. It is the biggest single atrocity of the Troubles and comes just four months afte...
5: Call the Boys Off
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Provisional IRA end their ceasefire in spectacular fashion, and the scale of the bomb detonated in the middle of Canary Wharf sparks renewed attem...
4: The Spectaculars
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two IRA men – John Crawley and Martin Ferris – are caught with seven tons of ammunition on their boat, just off the coast of Kerry. They are sente...
3: Coffins
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ten young men starve themselves to death in a prison outside Belfast. One of them – Bobby Sands – is an elected MP. Their deaths bring widespread ...
2: Guerrilla War
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Provisional IRA run a disciplined and efficient operation and prove capable of bringing bloody war to the British Army. A cat and mouse game on th...
1: Power and Protest
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1969, violence explodes across Northern Ireland.Catholics, who were treated as second-class citizens by the Protestant majority, march in protest a...
Introducing... From Bomb to Ballot
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sinn Féin, the party that emerged as the political wing of the Provisional IRA, made history when it won the popular vote in the Ireland’s 2020 Gen...