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Home Rule League

Great Britain · Politics / Irish Party. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

4Records
1879–1882Date range
2Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1879

William Shaw1879

Politics / Irish Party

Following Butts death in 1879, William Shaw serves as chairman (leader) for one Parliamentary session

1880

Charles Stewart Parnell1880

Politics / Irish Party

Charles Stewart replaces William Shaw as chairman of the Home Rule League

William Shaw1880

Politics / Irish Party

Charles Stewart replaces William Shaw as chairman of the Home Rule League

1882

Charles Stewart Parnell1882

Politics / Irish Party

In 1882, as part of a wholescale move from being an informal alliance to a cohesive unified, whipped political movement Parnell renames the Home Rule League the Irish Parliamentary Party to pursue Irish Home Rule

Names involved

Charles Stewart ParnellWilliam Shaw

Provenance

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