Just curious about this. According to Sinn Féin theory, can there ever be a legitimate Dáil? I gather that your objection to the third and subsequent Dála is that the Second Dáil didn't dissolve itself. How can that ever happen, and if it can't doesn't it make your aims (in that regard anyway) irrelavent?

An Act of Union is one method that has been used in the past. I think you'll have a hard time selling that to the Shinners however.

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Ah what?? Come again???

If you can believe that the Army Council of the IRA is the legitimate Government of Ireland you can believe anything.

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Christ. A username 'whig', a Churchill quote and located in Trinity. This could be fairly excrutiating.

For the record Sinn Féin recognises Leinster House as the legitimate government for this state. In fairness to yourself, we've only been stating this for decades so it might not have made it into the Hist yet.

Republicans do not believe however that Dáil Éireann is the legitimate successor to the Dáil set up prior to the Tan War and hence maintain our political allegiance to the Proclamation and the Democratic Programme as paramount.

..."this state" being?

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Ummm, this state? The state you and I live in?

Check out: http://www.irlgov.ie/ for more details.

The state of denial!!!

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The Republic of Ireland?

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Aren't these two viewpoints in direct contradiction of one another?