Fianna Fáil
/ˈfiːənəˈfɔɪl,〈爱尔兰〉 ˌfʲiənə ˈfaːlʲ/- one of the two main political parties of the Republic of Ireland. Larger and traditionally more republican than its rival Fine Gael, it was formed in 1926 in opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 by Eamon de Valera together with some of the moderate members of Sinn Fein.替天行道士兵党, 共和党(爱尔兰共和国两大政党之一, 比其对手爱尔兰统一党更大、更拥护共和政体, 1926年由伊蒙·德·瓦勒拉与新芬党的一些温和派成员为反对1921年的《爱英条约》而成立)。
词源
Irish, from fianna 'band of warriors' (applied to the soldiers of Finn MacCool; compare with FENIAN) and Fáil, genitive of Fál, an ancient name for Ireland. The phrase Fianna Fáil was used in 15th-cent. poetry in the neutral sense 'people of Ireland', but the founders of the political party interpreted it to mean 'soldiers of destiny'.