Home Rule League

The Home Rule League ( sometimes called the Home Rule Party ) was a political party in Ireland from 1873 to 1882, which aimed at the so-called Home Rule for Ireland. The Home Rule League was reorganized in the 1880s and renamed the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP). The IPP is considered the first professionally organized party in British politics history.

Origin

The Home Rule League came from the Home Government Association, an interest group, which was founded in 1870 by Isaac Butt, a lawyer from Dublin. 1871, the loosely run organization was restructured as a political party and renamed the Home Rule League. In the 1874 election, the party won 60 seats in the House of Commons. Although the HRL occurred as a party, she was taken precisely at this time but only a partnership of independent politicians. This eventually led to the internal split in the party between the moderate (mostly members of Parliament aristocratic or church background ) and the more radical forces around the Belfast parliament Joseph Biggar and Charles Stewart Parnell.

Renaming

After the death of Butt in 1879 was William Shaw new leader of the party. Shaw was but a year later replaced by the newly elected Parnell. In the election in the same year, the party was able to win three seats. 1882, the step to re- reorganization of a rather loose alliance of politicians to a united, strictly led political party. In this context, Parnell called the party into Irish Parliamentary Party.

Chairman of the party

  • Isaac Butt 1873-1879
  • William Shaw 1879-1880
  • Charles Stewart Parnell 1880-1882
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