All-for-Ireland League | |
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Abbreviation | AFIL |
Leader | William O'Brien |
Chairman | James Gilhooly |
Founded | 1909 |
Dissolved | 1918 |
Ideology | Nonsectarian Irish nationalism Liberalism |
Political position | Centre to centre-right |
Colours | Green |
The All-for-Ireland League (AFIL) was an Irish, Munster-based political party (1909–1918). Founded by William O'Brien MP, it generated a new national movement to achieve agreement between the different parties concerned on the historically difficult aim of Home Rule for the whole of Ireland. The AFIL established itself as a separate non-sectarian party in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, binding a group of independent nationalists MPs to pursue a broader concept of Irish nationalism, a consensus of political brotherhood and reconciliation among all Irishmen, primarily to win Unionist consent to an All-Ireland parliamentary settlement.
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