Healyite Nationalist

The Healyite Nationalists (also known as Independent Nationalists) were Irish Nationalist politicians who supported Timothy Michael Healy.

Healy was outspoken member of the anti-Parnellite majority in the Irish Parliamentary Party. In following decades, he became estranged from the movement, setting up his own personal organisation as MP for North Louth in 1892 together with five fellow MPs under the name "People's Rights Association", dubbed the 'clerical' party due to Healy's closness to his clerical ally Michael Cardinal Logue [David W. Miller "Church, State and Nation in Ireland 1898-1921" Gill & Macmillan (1973), pps. 17, 50, 124, 143-4 ISBN 0 7171 0645 4]

In the 1900 UK general election, five Healyite Nationalist MPs were returned to the British House of Commons. In the following general election, in 1906, this number fell to one.

Healy later associated with the All-for-Ireland League.

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