ABSTRACT
After a decade of division, in 1900 the Irish party reunited with John Redmond in the chair. John Dillon graciously agreed to serve as his chief lieutenant. Under the new arrangement, the United Irish League replaced the Parnellite Irish National League and the anti-Parnellite Irish National Federation as the Home Rule constituency organization. William O’Brien created the United Irish League in 1898 to pressure the British government into dividing and distributing large grazing ranches in the west among Irish peasants to slow the rush of emigration.
