Charles Stewart Parnell21 April 1875
Charles Stewart Parnell is first elected to the House of Commons (the lower level of British legislature), as a Home Rule League Member of Parliament for Meath
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Charles Stewart Parnell is first elected to the House of Commons (the lower level of British legislature), as a Home Rule League Member of Parliament for Meath
Appointed President of the Home Rule Confederation
Following Butts death in 1879, William Shaw serves as chairman (leader) for one Parliamentary session
Charles Stewart replaces William Shaw as chairman of the Home Rule League
Charles Stewart replaces William Shaw as chairman of the Home Rule League
Parnell seeks to use his experience and huge support to advance his pursuit of Home Rule and resurrect the suppressed Land League as the Irish National League (INL). Combines moderate agrarianism, a Home Rule programme with electoral functions, is hierarchical and autocratic in structure with Parnell wielding immense authority and direct Parliamentary control
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
Gladstone introduces the First Irish Home Rule Bill, his object to establish an Irish legislature
Parliament was dissolved and elections called, Irish Home Rule the central issue, the result of the July 1886 general election was again Liberal defeat, the Conservative anti-Home-Rulers and the Liberal Unionist Party return with a majority of 118
Parliament was dissolved and elections called, Irish Home Rule the central issue, the result of the July 1886 general election was again Liberal defeat, the Conservative anti-Home-Rulers and the Liberal Unionist Party return with a majority of 118. The Liberals regain power, their leader Gladstone now under Parnells sway moving towards Home Rule, which Gladstones son revealed publicly under what became known as the "flying of the Hawarden Kite"
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