page_title: All-for-Ireland League
section_title: "Three C s" Banner
hierarchical_section_title: All-for-Ireland League / "Three C s" Banner
caption_attribution_description: English: Image of a Membership Card of the All-for-Ireland League, 1910 (original document faded).
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: The application of the AFIL's principles of  "Conference, Conciliation and Consent" (the Three C s), were to win All-Ireland Home Rule – or constitutional nationalism rather than an ultimately doomed path of  militant physical force.
  Many of the leading Protestant gentry of Munster, and representatives of the wealthy Protestant business and professional community joined the League.  Lord Dunraven, Lord Barrymore, Lord Mayo and Lord Castletown, Sir John Keane of Cappoquin, Villiers Stuart of Dromana, Moreton Frewen and Thomas Westropp Bennett (a first generation Roman Catholic from an old Co Limerick Protestant family) were a few of the more notable adherents who supplied political and financial support. Even amongst the Orangemen the spirit of patriotism was stirring – hands were stretched out from Ulster to the Catholics of the South. Lord Rossmore, once Grandmaster of the Orange Institution, joined the League, Sharman Crawford and others. Unionism was declared by them to be a "discredited creed". Nationalist and Unionists were called upon to recognise the unwisdom of perpetuating a suicidal strife which sacrificed them to religious bigotry and the political exigencies of English partie.
  League Chairperson was James Gilhooly (MP), Honorary Secretary D. D. Sheehan (MP).  A Central London branch was founded by Dr J. G. Fitzgerald (MP) as chairman, suggesting some disenchantment with his former Parnellite colleagues including John Redmond. Canon Sheehan of Doneraile, a founder member, spoke and wrote enthusiastically in favour of the Leagues doctrines. The Cork Free Press, published by O'Brien, appeared for the first time on 11 June 1910 as the League's official organ and organiser. It was a newspaper in the fullest sense, superseding the Cork Accent and was one of the three great radical newspapers published in Ireland – the other two being The Nation, published in Dublin in the 1840s, and The Northern Star, published in Belfast in the 1790s.
caption: League's membership card endorsed:
  All for Ireland here are we,
  All for Ireland's liberty;
  To right, to raise, to set her free,
  Our Native Land for ever. T.D.S.
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