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==Name== In 1971, it registered to contest Dáil and local elections in the Republic of Ireland under the name '''Sinn Féin'''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sinn Fein can now contest elections |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1971/0804/Pg011.html#Ar01106 |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |date=4 August 1971 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> From the early to mid-1970s, it was known as Official Sinn Féin or ''Sinn Féin (Gardiner Place)'' to distinguish it from the rival offshoot Provisional Sinn Féin, or ''Sinn Féin (Kevin Street)''. Gardiner Place had symbolic power as the headquarters of [[Sinn Féin]] for decades before the 1970 split. At its [[Ardfheis]] in January 1977, Official Sinn Féin renamed itself ''Sinn Féin – The Workers' Party''. Its first seats in [[Dáil Éireann]] were won under this new name. A motion at the 1979 Ardfheis to remove the ''Sinn Féin'' prefix from the party name was narrowly defeated. This change would come about three years later.<ref name=lost/> In [[Northern Ireland]], Sinn Féin was organised under the name '''Republican Clubs''' to avoid a ban on Sinn Féin candidates (introduced in 1964 under Northern Ireland's [[Emergency Powers Act (Northern Ireland) 1926|Emergency Powers Act]]). The Officials continued to use this name after 1970,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/organ/worgan.htm |title=Abstracts on Organisations - 'W' |publisher= CAIN Archive - Conflict and Politics in Northern Ireland |access-date=3 February 2011 |archive-date=6 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206171810/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/organ/worgan.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and later used the name '''Workers' Party Republican Clubs'''. In 1982, both the northern and southern sections of the party became The Workers' Party.<ref>{{cite book|title=Ireland Today: Anatomy of a Changing State |author-link=Gemma Hussey |first=Gemma |last=Hussey |year=1993 |pages=172–173, 194}}</ref> The Workers' Party is sometimes referred to as the "Sticks" or "Stickies" because in the 1970s it used adhesive stickers for the [[Easter Lily (badge)|Easter Lily]] emblem in its 1916 commemorations, whereas Provisional Sinn Féin used a pin for theirs.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party |first1=Brian |last1=Hanley |first2=Scott |last2=Millar |year=2010 |page=151}}</ref>
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