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I had always believed Fine Gael translated as 'Clan of the Gael' and Sinn Fein as 'Ourselves Alone'. I haven't edited as I'm more than prepared to learn that these aren't as pukka as the terms used.

I had always believed Fine Gael translated as 'Clan of the Gael' and Sinn Fein as 'Ourselves Alone'. I haven't edited as I'm more than prepared to learn that these aren't as pukka as the terms used.

 

: There's no proper english translation for Sinn Fein. The closest you could come(literally anyway) would probably ourselves ourselves. D

    -There's no proper english translation for Sinn Fein. The closest you could come(literally anyway) would probably ourselves ourselves. D

:: No, that is incorrect. Ourselves is the proper translation of Sinn Féin. Placing a pronoun infront of the word Féin is translated as "corresponding posession pronoun"self in English. For example myself is "Mé Féin." --[[User:Ned|Ned]] 23:05, 8 October 2007 (EDT)

 

:: Sinn Féin is accurately translated as 'We Ourselves', not 'Ourselves Alone'. The latter is a mistranslation by [[Robert Kee]] in his book of the same name, and the mistranslation caught on over in Britain. Fine Gael translates as 'tribe of the Irish'; Fine Gael's former name (until 1933)was Cumann na Gaedhaeil (society of the Irish), and Clann na nGaeil (family of the Irish) was the name of an influential late nineteenth-century Irish group in the United States. [[User:TomBarry|TomBarry]] 19:44, 28 May 2008 (EDT)

No, that is incorrect. Ourselves is the proper translation of Sinn Féin. Placing a pronoun infront of the word Féin is translated as "corresponding posession pronoun"self in English. For example myself is "Mé Féin." --[[User:Ned|Ned]] 23:05, 8 October 2007 (EDT)

== Party Positions ==

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