Irish National League

The Irish National League (INL) was a

The League was the main base of support for the

In December 1890, both the INL and the IPP split on the issues of Parnell's long standing family relationship with Katharine O'Shea, the earlier separated wife of a fellow MP, Capt. O'Shea, and their subsequent divorce proceedings. The majority of the League, which opposed Parnell, broke away to form the "Anti-Parnellite" Irish National Federation (INF) under John Dillon. John Redmond assumed the leadership of the minority Pro-Parnellite (INL) group who remained faithful to Parnell. Despite the split, in the 1892 general election the combined factions still retained the Irish nationalist pro-Home Rule vote and their 81 seats.

Early in 1900, the Irish National League (INL) finally merged with the

Informal judicial system

The National League maintained a code based on the writings of Young Irelander

The League enforced its code by means of informal tribunals, typically led by the leaders of local chapters. Although there was a long history of such courts by Irish agrarian radicals stretching back to the 1760s, the National League's courts differed from previous iterations in that it held its proceedings openly and followed a common law procedure. This was intended to uphold the League's image of being in favour of the rule of law, just Irish law instead of English law.[5]

References

Citations

General sources

• Gardiner, Juliet (ed.). The Penguin Dictionary of British History.
• Jackson, Alvin (2010). Ireland: 1798–1998. John Wiley & Sons.
• Jordan, Donald (1998). "The Irish National League and the 'Unwritten Law': Rural Protest and Nation-Building in Ireland 1882–1890". Past & Present. 158 (158). Oxford University Press: 146–171.
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