Sinn Féin The Workers Party, was the name adopted by "Official Sinn Féin" in 1977. In 1982 it was renamed "The Workers Party". Official Sinn Féin was the name commonly applied to what remained of Sinn Féin after Provisional Sinn Féin broke away in 1970. It was associated with the Official IRA, which similarly comprised those who remained part of the original organisation after the Provisional IRA was formed in 1969. Official Sinn Féin (aka Sinn Féin the Workers Party) evolved from the split in Sinn Féin and the IRA that took place in 1970. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... 1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January-February January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British... Categories: Ireland-related stubs | Irish political parties | Republic of Ireland political parties | Northern Ireland political parties ... -1... Provisional Sinn Féin evolved from the split in Sinn Féin and the IRA that took place in the late 1960s. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... The term Official IRA relates to one of the two elements of the Irish Republican Army - the other being the Provisional IRA - that emerged from the ideological split in the Irish Republican movement in 1969-70. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) is a paramilitary group which aimed, through the use of violence, to achieve three goals: (i) British withdrawal from Ireland, (ii) the political unification of Ireland through the merger of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland , and (iii) the creation of an all... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...

Members of the Official IRA split off in 1974 to form the Irish National Liberation Army and some INLA members subsequently established the Irish Peoples Liberation Organisation. Activitities allegedly linked to the Official IRA and its political wing include money counterfeiting in Dublin during the 1980s. Officially the Official IRA has never disbanded or decommissioned. 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) was formed on 8 December 1974 as the military wing of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement (a political wing, the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP), was formed the same day) by Seamus Costello and other activists who had left or been forced out of... Dublins Hapenny Bridge. ... Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...

See also

• Irish Republican Army
• Sinn Féin
• The Troubles
• Northern Ireland