Meanings of republican faction in English

Whereas their opponents were united, the Union party was divided into a Douglas and a Republican faction.

The CIRA has joined the other republican factions represented in the jail who have ended the no-wash dirty protest.

On Capitol Hill, Ryan must also preserve a tentative peace he has achieved among warring Republican factions in the Congress.

In the spring of 1922, as southern Ireland drifted towards civil war, rival republican factions conspired to support renewed violence in Northern Ireland.

On 26 March 1939 Franco ordered his troops to advance on Madrid after fighting there between Republican factions.

On the whole, the result was probably to bring the Republican factions together and so to strengthen the party for the election of 1880.

Riot police kept apart rival loyalist and republican factions in Belfast today as thousands of supporters and opponents of the parade packed the city centre.

The gardaí is believed to be examining whether the letters were sent by the dissident Irish republican factions the Real IRA or the New IRA.

The president's unsubstantiated claim that between 3 million and 5 million people voted illegally in the November election disturbed both Democratic and Republican factions.