Independent Irish Party
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The Independent Irish Party (1852-1858), colloquially known as the Pope’s Brass Band because of their stance on the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, was an Irish political party founded in July 1852 by 40 Irish MPs who had been elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
It had two central aims:
- The repeal of the Ecclesistical Titles Act, which banned Roman Catholic Bishops from re-assuming pre-reformation ecclesiastical bishropic titles in the United Kingdom, as well as the prohibition of the wearing of clerical outfits.
- The adoption and enforcement of the Three Fs, namely
- *fair rent;
- *fixity of tenure;
- *free sale. (These would all have aided Irish tenant farms, all of whom lacked them.)
The party was damaged by weak leaders and by the lack of support its received from the Roman Catholic Church. Charles Gavan Duffy left in despair and went to Australia. Frederick Lucas proved an ineffective leader, while his successor, George Henry Moore, its new leader, having got elected in his Mayo Constituency through clerical help, was defeated by clerical opposition in 1857. The party split over an internal row over its oath, and faded into oblivion.
| Defunct Political Parties in Ireland | |
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| To 1918: | All-for-Ireland League > Catholic Union | Home Government Association | Home Rule League | Independent Irish Party | Irish Conservative Party | Irish Liberal Party | Irish Metropolitan Conservative Society | Irish National Federation | Irish Parliamentary Party | Irish Unionist Party | National Association | National League | United Irish League |
| Post 1918: | Anti-Partition of Ireland League > Aontacht Éireann | Clann na Poblachta | Clann na Talmhan | Córas na Poblachta | Cumann na nGaedhael | Cumann na Poblachta | Democratic Left | Democratic Socialist Party | Irish Independence Party | National Labour | National League | National Progressive Democrats | Republican Congress | Saor Éire | Socialist Labour Party | Socialist Party of Ireland |
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