Sinn Féin (slogan)

[5] On the other hand, Alvin Jackson says "ourselves alone" may have been a construct of opponents to highlight the political isolation of those using the slogan,[6] or the perceived selfishness of abandoning Britain, as in this Punch parody from the First World War:[7] Christopher Hitchens, writing of the Field Day anthology of Irish literature, says:[8] Ourselves Alone was a 1936 British film, set during the Anglo-Irish War of 1919–21.

[12] A nationalist play by "Tom Telephone" (Thomas Stanislaus Cleary) published in 1882 was entitled Shin Fain; or Ourselves Alone.

[1] In James Joyce's novel Ulysses, set in 1904, The Citizen, a boorish nationalist partly modelled on Michael Cusack, shouts "Sinn Féin!

In the 1910s, "Sinn Feiners" was a common, often derogatory, label for militant nationalists, regardless of any connection to Griffith's movement.

[15] A 1915 mock-unionist article in a University College Dublin student journal distinguished types of Irish nationalist:[16] When the Irish Volunteers split in September 1914, the more militant group was soon dubbed the "Sinn Féin Volunteers" by the security forces of the Dublin Castle administration.

[15] Likewise, the 1916 Easter Rising was quickly dubbed the "Sinn Féin rebellion" by British-oriented newspapers.