Political Views
- First he was an advocate of Home Rule for Ireland, though within the context of a more general devolution within the United Kingdom.
Then he did not any longer support the movement, when William Ewart Gladstone’s Liberal Party took over Home Rule as its policy for Ireland with the First Irish Home Rule Bill in 1886. The Home Rule League had been already reorganised and renamed to Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) in 1882.
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