Irish National League

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British cartoon created by John Tenniel and published in Punch in 1885 , in which a vampire with the inscription "National League" and the head of Charles Parnell looms over a defenseless woman who represents Ireland.

The Irish National League ( Irish Léig Náisiúnta na hÉireann ) was an Irish national political organization founded on October 17, 1882, which served to win broad public support for the Home Rule Party and later the Irish Parliamentary Party . It was founded as the successor organization to the Irish Land League after it was forcibly dissolved. Other goals included land reform that would give farmers ownership of the land they used, better working conditions, promoting economic development, and improving voting rights. The organization had regional branches, which u. a. also served to select candidates for the House of Commons elections . After a rather hesitant development at the beginning, there were more than 1,200 branches after the electoral reform of 1884/1885. Until the split in the Irish Parliamentary Party in 1890, the organization was the main instrument of the movement initiated by Charles Parnell . The organization remained under Parnell's control, so through the initiative of William Martin Murphy, his opponents formed the Irish National Committee . She went to the United Irish League in 1900 when reunification succeeded.

literature

  • James Loughlin: National League . In: SJ Connolly (Ed.): The Oxford Companion to Irish History . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-211695-9 , pp. 383 .
  • Carla King: Irish National League . In: Brian Lalor (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of Ireland . Yale University Press, New Haven 2003, ISBN 0-300-09442-6 , pp. 550 .

Remarks

  1. ^ Punch, 'The Irish Vampire'. Ireland's Great Hunger Museum, archived from the original on February 5, 2017 ; accessed on January 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c cf. King.
  3. ↑ a b cf. Loughlin.
  4. ^ Thomas Morrissey: William Martin Murphy . Historical Association of Ireland, Dublin 1997, ISBN 0-85221-132-5 , pp. 22-24 .