Horace Plunkett
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Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett, was an Anglo-Irish agricultural reformer, pioneer of agricultural cooperatives and author. In politics, he had been elected as a Unionist MP, but later became a supporter o
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First Irish Dairy Cooperative, erected and established 1889, in Doneraile, County Cork.
Plunkett in 1915
The Plunkett House nameplate
Irish Unionist Alliance
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The Irish Unionist Alliance, also known as the Irish Unionist Party, Irish Unionists or simply the Unionists, was a unionist political party founded in Ireland in 1891 from a merger of the Irish Conse
Horace Plunkett
…poverty and violent social disorder, which before long is almost certain to end in civil war". At the 1892 general election he was elected as the Irish Unionist Alliance Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dublin, gaining it from the Anti-Parnellite incumbent Sir Thomas Esmonde against a split nationalist vote. He…
A Unionist anti-John Redmond poster from the 1910 election
Walter Long was leader of the Irish Unionist Party in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910
Edward Carson led the Irish Unionist Parliamentary Party from 1910 and 1921, during which time the party became increasingly divided between northern and southern unionist interests