Edited sentence: For traditional republicans, the mention of the Gardiner Place headquarters carried symbolic power, because the Gardiner Place headquarters had been the headquarters of Sinn Féin for decades prior to the 1970 split.Official Sinn Féin was sometimes called Sinn Féin (Gardiner Place) in the early to mid 1970s, using the name of the location of its headquarters to distinguish itself from the rival offshoot of Sinn Féin, called in the period Provisional Sinn Féin or Sinn Féin (Kevin Street).The name died out from usage in the mid 1970s