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Born March 25, 1846 • Ireland
Died May 31, 1906 (aged 60) • Dublin • Ireland
Title / Office House of Commons (1895-1899), United Kingdom
Founder Land League
Isaac Butt
Irish leader
Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell
Irish leader
O'Brien, William
William O’Brien
Irish politician
T.M. Healy, detail of an oil painting by Sir John Lavery; in the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin.
T.M. Healy
Irish politician
William E. Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone
prime minister of United Kingdom
George Wyndham
British politician
William Henry O’Shea
Irish nationalist
Gerry Adams
Gerry Adams
Irish leader
Daniel O'Connell
Daniel O’Connell
Irish leader
John Dillon, 1890
John Dillon
Irish leader
Sir Roger Casement
British politician
1st Baron Plunket, engraving by David Lucas, 1844, after a painting by Richard Rothwell
William Conyngham Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket
British-Irish lawyer
William Smith O'Brien, lithograph by H. O'Neill after a daguerreotype by Glukman, 1848
William Smith O’Brien
Irish patriot
Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy
Irish politician
Thomas Addis Emmet
Irish lawyer
George III
George III
king of Great Britain
David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George
prime minister of United Kingdom
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Irish statesman
Anne
Anne
queen of Great Britain and Ireland
Wellesley, Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess
Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley
British statesman