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6 unusual facts about Irish Parliamentary Party


George Earle Buckle

The paper's purchase and publication of Richard Piggott's forged letters purportedly showing a connection between Irish Parliamentary Party leader Charles Stewart Parnell and the Phoenix Park Murders was primarily motivated by the desire for a scoop rather than because of politics, and Buckle's subsequent offer of his resignation was rejected by Walter.

Irish Parliamentary Party

Gladstone said his mission was to pacify Ireland and with the Irish Church Act 1869 began with the disestablishment of the Anglican Church of Ireland whose members were a minority who made all political decisions in Ireland and would have largely voted Conservative.

The Conservatives under Disraeli had been defeated in the election and Gladstone was again Prime Minister.

Labourers (Ireland) Acts (Bryce Act 1906 and Birrell Act 1911) (the Sheehan Acts), providing rural labourers with extensive housing

James Boland

Boland's involvement in the nationalist movement increased and, after the split over Charles Stewart Parnell's leadership of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he became one of the main Parnellite organisers in Dublin.

Richard Pigott

Nothing was done about his accusation, which was publicised in the newspapers, and he turned against the League, which was allied to several Irish nationalist groups including the Irish Parliamentary Party led by Charles Stewart Parnell.


Irish National Federation

It was founded in March 1891 by former members of the Irish National League (INL) who had left the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) in protest when Charles Stewart Parnell refused to resign the party leadership as a result of his involvement in the divorce proceedings of Katharine O'Shea, the separated wife of a fellow MP.

Patrick Aloysius Meehan

Patrick Aloysius Meehan (1852 - 10 May 1913) was an Irish Parliamentary Party MP for Leix Division of Queen's County, Ireland in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from the 1906 election until his death.

South East Cork by-election, 1889

The vacancy arose because of the resignation of the sitting member, John Hooper of the Irish Parliamentary Party.

Waterford City by-election, 1891

It arose as a result of the death of the sitting member, Richard Power of the Irish Parliamentary Party.


see also

Pierce Mahony

Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony (1850–1930), Irish Parliamentary Party MP for North Meath, known as Pierce Mahony until 1901