Charles Stewart Parnell1882
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
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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
Unionist anti-home rule protest demonstrations resulted in a split between pro- and anti-home rulers within the Liberal Party and the defeat of the bill on its second reading in June by 341 to 311 votes
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
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