Unity Resolutions
Local political organisations passed resolutions supporting a united Irish parliamentary representation as impatience grew with the divisions inherited from the fall of Charles Stewart Parnell. United Irish League branches, nationalist associations and constituency bodies increasingly argued that rival parliamentary groups should place national interests above personal quarrels. Their declarations carried no direct authority over individual MPs, but they reflected the opinion of activists who organised meetings, raised subscriptions and supplied much of the labour required during elections. Continued factionalism therefore threatened not only parliamentary effectiveness but the willingness of local supporters to sustain representatives who refused to cooperate.
