- Independent Nationalist
Independent Nationalist was a political title frequently used by Irish nationalists when contesting elections to the House of Commons of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland not as members of theIrish Parliamentary Party , in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.In the main, but certainly not always, such Independent Nationalist candidates were either the
Healyite Nationalist s, supporters ofTimothy Michael Healy or the O'Brienite Nationalists, supporters ofWilliam O'Brien .Some others were elected as Independent Nationalists outside of the above groupings, such as
Timothy Harrington (1900) & (1906),Joseph Nolan (1900),D.D. Sheehan (1906),Laurence Ginnell (1910),William Redmond andJames Cosgrave (1923), Michael O'Neill (1951),John Hume (1969),Paddy O'Hanlon (1969).
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