Reunion Talks
John Redmond’s Parnellite followers entered formal discussions with their former anti-Parnellite opponents as pressure mounted to end nearly a decade of nationalist division. Redmond had led the minority that remained loyal to Charles Stewart Parnell after the Irish Parliamentary Party split in December 1890. The larger anti-Parnellite body was principally associated with John Dillon, while Timothy Healy commanded another influential grouping. Their separate organisations had competed for authority, funds and electoral support throughout the 1890s, weakening the parliamentary movement and leaving constitutional nationalism without the concentrated leadership it had possessed under Parnell.