page_title: All-for-Ireland League
section_title: League's manifesto
hierarchical_section_title: All-for-Ireland League / "Three C s" Banner / League's manifesto
caption_attribution_description: English: The St. Patrick's All-for-Ireland Band, a Fife and Drum band parading through Castletownbere, County Cork, Ireland, in 1910. In the early part of the last century many towns in Munster had a tradition of marching bands, a very old tradition in Castetownbere. Some towns boasted two rival bands, one composed of supporters of the O'Brienite party's All-for-Ireland League, the other band backing the Redmonite party's Ancient Order of Hibernians. Many stories are told of "incidents" between the bands on Sunday parades, particularly during stormy election meetings, when the bands instruments were often used for more than making music.
context_page_description: The All-for-Ireland League was an Irish, Munster-based political party. Founded by William O'Brien MP, it generated a new national movement to achieve agreement between the different parties concerned on the historically difficult aim of Home Rule for the whole of Ireland. The AFIL established itself as a separate non-sectarian party in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, binding a group of independent nationalists MPs to pursue a broader concept of Irish nationalism, a consensus of political brotherhood and reconciliation among all Irishmen, primarily to win Unionist consent to an All-Ireland parliamentary settlement.
context_section_description: Canon Sheehan wrote the manifesto of the movement for the first number of the Cork Free Press, and asked in a very long editorial:
  We are a generous people; and yet we are told we must  keep up a sectarian bitterness to the end; and the Protestant Ascendancy has been broken down, only to build Catholic Ascendancy on its ruins. Are we in earnest about our country at all or are we seeking to perpetuate our wretchedness by refusing the honest aid of Irishmen? Why should we throw unto the arms of England those children of Ireland who would be our most faithful allies, if we did not seek to disinherit them? A weaker brother disinherited by a stranger will naturally be his enemy ... 
  England owes her world-wide power ... to her supreme talent of attracting and assimilating the most hostile elements of her subject races ...  Ireland, alas, has had the talent of estranging and expelling her own children, and turning them ...  into her deadliest enemies. It is time that all this should cease, if we still retain the ambition of creating a nation.
caption: All-for-Ireland fife and drum band parading through Castletownbere co. Cork in 1910.
   Towns often had rival AFIL and AOH bands, occasionally clashing on Sunday parades.
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