Word: nationalist
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Before an audience which completely filled the Living Room of the Union, the Honorable Thomas Power O'Connor, M. P., last evening delivered a masterful address on "English Parliamentary Life." With the intimacy of one who, as the leader of the Irish Nationalist Party has for 27 years occupied a seat in the House of Commons, the speaker eulogized Parnell and Gladstone for their devotion to the Irish cause, gently ridiculed Balfour and ancient English customs, gave a pathetic picture of suffering Ireland in its true light, and humorously caricatured peculiarities in Parliamentary practice...
...Connor is in this country as a special guest of the United Irish League, and as the representative of the Irish Nationalist Party, of which he has been leader for the past 27 years. He is a man of broad education and experience, having studied at the College of the Immaculate Conception, Athlone, Ireland, the place of his birth, and at Queen's College, Galway, where he graduated in 1866 when 18 years...
Besides being an active force in Parliament, Mr. O'Connor is president of the United Irish League, Ireland's great nationalist organization, both at home and abroad, in the interest of which he is now visiting the United States...