The definitive history of Sinn Féin – inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking power in Ireland
THE LONG GAME: INSIDE SINN FÉIN
BY AOIFE MOORE
Penguin Sandycove trade paperback | Available 11th February 2025
9780241993781TPB | 0241993784 ebook
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From award-winning journalist, Aoife Moore, The Long Game is the definitive book on Sinn Féin, with never-before-seen details on contemporary Ireland’s biggest and most elusive political story
Sinn Féin is the most popular political party in both Northern Ireland and the Republic. A party once synonymous with a paramilitary campaign is on the brink of taking real power through purely democratic means. But if Sinn Féin has mastered the art of electoral politics, it remains strangely opaque. Who really runs the party? How is it funded? And what can we expect of it as a party of government?
Aoife Moore, Irish Journalist of the Year 2021, explores these and other burning questions in The Long Game. Drawing on exclusive interviews with current and former members of Sinn Féin, she builds up a picture of a party undergoing a profound, and still incomplete, transformation. She looks at the key individuals and moments that put the party on its present course, and she explores tensions within the party and the wider republican movement.
Packed with revelatory details, The Long Game is a groundbreaking telling of contemporary Ireland's biggest and most elusive political story.
‘A fierce political commentator’ - Derry Journal
Aoife Moore is an Irish journalist and political correspondent from Derry. She was awarded Irish Journalist of the Year 2021 for breaking the Golfgate scandal. The Long Game is her first book.
