“How to form Sinn Fein clubs."

Herbert M. Pinn

“How to form Sinn Fein clubs."

Dublin

The Irishman, Sinn Fein Tract No. 3

1916

Written in the ferment of 1916, this manual was part of the effort to spread the nationalist organization Sinn Fein across Ireland. The Irishman was a nationalist monthly magazine started by Pim in Belfast. A complicated figure, Pim was a convert to Roman Catholicism, who was described by Arthur Griffith as “my well-meaning but feather-headed friend.…” Pim spent five months in prison following the Easter Rising, tried to take charge of Sinn Fein upon his release, and, following his failure to achieve leadership, swung to the hard right and went to England.

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations