In Irish politics of the 1890s and 1900s, the Healyite Nationalists (sometimes also known as Independent Nationalists ) were Irish nationalist politicians who supported Tim Healy MP.
6-526: Healy was the most outspoken member of the Anti-Parnellite majority in the Irish Parliamentary Party . In the years following the revelation of the O'Shea scandal in 1890 he became estranged from the movement, setting up his own personal organisation as Member of parliament (MP) for North Louth in 1892, together with five fellow MPs, under the name "People's Rights Association". It was dubbed
12-462: A split in the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) on the leadership of Charles Stewart Parnell . Parnell had refused to resign his leadership of the party after being named in divorce proceedings against Katharine O'Shea by the former MP William O'Shea . In the aftermath of the divorce, William Ewart Gladstone , leader of the Liberal Party , had declared that he would not work with Parnell, damaging
18-883: The 'clerical' party due to Healy's closeness to his clerical ally Cardinal Michael Logue . The parliamentary election results in Ireland at the 1895 general election show eight Healyite Nationalist MPs returned to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom . These, apart from Tim Healy, included James Gibney , Maurice Healy , Arthur O'Connor and Timothy Daniel Sullivan . At the next general election, in 1900 , Healyites stood in sixteen constituencies. Six were elected: John Campbell (South Armagh), John Hammond (Carlow County), Peter Ffrench (South Wexford), James Laurence Carew (South Meath), Tim Healy (North Louth) and Patrick Kennedy (North Westmeath). One of those who failed to be elected
24-788: The parliamentary alliance between the IPP and the Liberals. The group, which became known as the Anti-Parnellites , had a larger membership than the rump of the INL that stood by Parnell, was led first by Justin McCarthy , then by John Dillon . The INF was supported by the Catholic clergy, who strongly influenced the general elections of 1892 and 1895 , and the by-elections of the period. The Irish Times reported on 23 February 1893 that "the priests … swarmed at all
30-689: The polling stations, and kept the voters constantly in view". Membership of the INF declined after the United Irish League (UIL) was founded in 1898 by William O'Brien to promote unity between factions of Irish political nationalism. As a result, in 1900 the Federation joined the UIL in merging with the INL under the leadership of John Redmond , who had led the Irish National League after Parnell's death, in
36-639: Was William Martin Murphy , a close associate of Healy. Finally, at the general election of 1906 , this number fell to one, Tim Healy himself, who later associated himself with the All-for-Ireland League . Anti-Parnellite The Irish National Federation (INF) was a nationalist political party in Ireland . It was founded in 1891 by former members of the Irish National League (INL), after
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