Branches Demand
<span class="excerpt_part">...Irish representation since the fall of Charles Stewart <strong>Parnell</strong>. Branches possessed no constitutional power to command MPs, but their subscriptions, electoral labour and influence over candidate selection gave their appeals...</span>
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Ireland Votes
<span class="excerpt_part">...Election.” Irish nationalists approach it from a different direction. Their principal concern is whether the reunited parliamentary movement can recover the authority lost during the long division between <strong>Parnell</strong>ites and...</span>
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Editorial Pressure
<span class="excerpt_part">Nationalist newspapers increasingly presented reunion as a political necessity if Ireland was to recover influence at Westminster. Nearly ten years of division had left the parliamentary movement broken into <strong>Parnell</strong>ite,...</span>
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League Endorsed
<span class="excerpt_part">...<strong>Parnell</strong> and restore a united parliamentary movement. The endorsement demonstrated how greatly the balance of influence within constitutional nationalism had changed. During the 1890s, the rival parliamentary groups had maintained...</span>
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National Network
<span class="excerpt_part">...parliamentary nationalism remained divided following the fall of Charles Stewart <strong>Parnell</strong>. O’Brien sought to revive popular agitation by concentrating upon the condition of small farmers, evicted tenants and landless families,...</span>
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O’Brien’s Organisation
<span class="excerpt_part">...bitter quarrels that followed Charles Stewart <strong>Parnell</strong>’s downfall. He concentrated first upon the congested western districts, where smallholders and landless families lived beside large grazing farms. The League demanded the...</span>
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National Programme
<span class="excerpt_part">...conventions and public meetings. The nationalist movement entered the new century burdened by the divisions that followed Charles Stewart <strong>Parnell</strong>’s downfall in 1890. Rival parliamentary groups weakened electoral organisation and...</span>
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Unity Resolutions
<span class="excerpt_part">Local political organisations passed resolutions supporting a united Irish parliamentary representation as dissatisfaction deepened with the factional divisions inherited from the fall of Charles Stewart <strong>Parnell</strong>. United Irish League branches,...</span>
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British Absence
<span class="excerpt_part">...relationship changed after Charles Stewart <strong>Parnell</strong> created a disciplined parliamentary movement capable of representing Irish constituencies independently. Gladstone’s conversion to Home Rule encouraged cooperation between Liberals and nationalists at Westminster,...</span>
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Home Rule Deferred
<span class="excerpt_part">...then removed Home Rule from practical government business. During the years that followed, Irish nationalism was weakened by the divisions arising from Charles Stewart <strong>Parnell</strong>’s downfall. The reunion of the...</span>
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