Tomás Mac Giolla was an Irish Workers' Party politician who served as Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1993 to 1994, Leader of the Workers' Party from 1962 to 1988 and President of Sinn Féin from 1962 to 197
Mac Giolla in 2008
Seán Garland (right) with Tomás MacGiolla, May 2008
Sinn Féin is an Irish republican and democratic socialist political party active in Ireland, including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Tomás Mac Giolla
…Electricity Supply Board (ESB) from 1947 until he went into full-time politics in 1977. In his early life Mac Giolla was an active republican. He joined Sinn Féin and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) around 1950. He was interned by the government of Ireland during the 1956–62 IRA border campaign. He also served a…
Arthur Griffith is credited as the main founder of the party
The campaign car of Joseph McGuinness, who won the 1917 South Longford by-election whilst imprisoned. He was one of the first Sinn Féin MPs to be elected.
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (pictured in 2004) was the president of Provisional Sinn Féin from 1970 until 1983.
Under the political leadership of Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness (pictured 2016), Sinn Féin adopted a reformist policy, eventually leading to the Good Friday Agreement.