National League of the North

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Not to be confused with National League North.

The National League of the North (NLN) was an

Irish nationalist organisation active in Northern Ireland
.

The group was founded in May 1928 on the basis of a radical programme for the "National Unification of Ireland". It was in part an attempt to bring together the supporters of Joe Devlin and Cahir Healy, who were the leading figures in the Nationalist Party.[1]

At the 1933 Northern Ireland general election, in addition to supporting most Nationalist Party candidates, the group stood Gerry Lennon in South Armagh. He was unsuccessful, but did beat the official Nationalist. The League had become inactive by the mid-1930s.[1]

In 1936,

Ard Fheis, but Healy opposed this, and the group was instead allowed to become moribund.[1]

In 1938, the IUA was superseded when

Sabotage Campaign, which hardened British attitudes against the cause of Irish unification, and the project was dropped with the start of World War II.[1]

After the disbanding of the IUA, there was no rank-and-file nationalist group in Northern Ireland until the launch of the Irish Anti-Partition League in 1945.[1]

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