The 1886 general election in Ireland took place from 1–27 July 1886 following the collapse of the Liberal government of William Gladstone after his failed attempt to implement Home Rule for Ireland.
Charles Stewart Parnell Brady Handy
Robert Gascoyne Cecil 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Gladstone
Irish Parliamentary Party MPs elected in 1886.
Liberal Unionist Party
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The Liberal Unionist Party was a British political party that was formed in 1886 by a faction that broke away from the Liberal Party. Led by Lord Hartington and Joseph Chamberlain, the party establish
1886 United Kingdom general election in Ireland
…to implement Home Rule for Ireland. In response to Gladstone's attempt to implement Home Rule a unionist wing of the Liberals broke off to found the Liberal Unionist Party, which entered into an alliance with the Conservatives in an effort to block any attempt to implement Home Rule. The Irish Liberal Party, having lost…
The Liberal Unionists' leader, the Duke of Devonshire (1897, NPG).
Gladstone introduces the Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons (1886).
Joseph Chamberlain, head of the "tariff" faction of the party (1896).