Original: Over time , Adams and others pointed to Republican electoral successes in the early and mid-1980s , when hunger strikers Bobby Sands and Kieran Doherty were elected to the British House of Commons and DÃ il Ã ireann respectively , and they advocated that Sinn FÃ in become increasingly political and base its influence on electoral politics rather than paramilitarism .
Simplified: Adams and others , over time , pointed to Sinn FÃ in election wins in the early and mid-1980s , when hunger strikers Bobby Sands and Kieran Doherty were elected to the British House of Commons and DÃ il Ã ireann , and they pushed to get Sinn FÃ in become more political and less paramilitary .