The United Irish League

Highlights

• T.P.O'Neill's advice 'Don't mind publishing the book but gather the information'.
• U.I.L was formed 1898
• Base line reports on the use of land in Island House, Cathedral car park
• Men went to England to supplement income.
• Set up by William O'Brien from Mallow, County Cork vie Galway Gael. Was a M.P. during Parnell times. Biography 'Olive Branch for Ireland'.
• Mainly large land owners had no ancestral ties to the land.
• Shop keepers became land owners due to people running up debts.
• Priest encouraged people to get involved in the U.I.L.
• 180 branches with 35,000 members in Connacht.
• Tuam Herald lists people who joined.
• Bodkin Estate.
• Elections-Thomas Higgins poled 2585 and Con. Nolan 1064. Thomas Higgins died before the last tally.
• 1903 U.I.L. subsumed into the Irish Parliamentary Party. Dick Hazelton selected as candidate form there after.