The Healyite Nationalists (also known as Independent Nationalists) were Irish Nationalist politicians who supported Timothy Healy

Timothy Michael Healy

Timothy Michael Healy, KC , also known as Tim Healy, was an Irish nationalist politician, journalist, author, barrister and one of the most controversial Irish Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...

 MP.

Healy was the most outspoken member of the anti-Parnellite majority in the Irish Parliamentary Party

Irish Parliamentary Party

The Irish Parliamentary Party was formed in 1882 by Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of the Nationalist Party, replacing the Home Rule League, as official parliamentary party for Irish nationalist Members of Parliament elected to the House of Commons at...

. In the following decades he became estranged from the movement, setting up his own personal organisation as Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 (MP) for North Louth

North Louth (UK Parliament constituency)

North Louth was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1918...

 in 1892 together with five fellow MPs under the name "People's Rights Association". It was dubbed the 'clerical' party due to Healy's closeness to his clerical ally Cardinal

Cardinal (Catholicism)

A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...

 Michael Logue 

The parliamentary election results for Ireland in the 1895 UK general election

United Kingdom general election, 1895

The United Kingdom general election of 1895 was held from 13 July - 7 August 1895. It was won by the Conservatives led by Lord Salisbury who formed an alliance with the Liberal Unionist Party and had a large majority over the Liberals, led by Lord Rosebery...

 show eight Healyite Nationalist MPs returned to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. These, apart from Timothy Healy, included James Gibney

James Gibney

James Gibney was an Irish Nationalist politician. An anti-Parnellite, he was Member of Parliament for North Meath from 1893 to 1900....

, Maurice Healy

Maurice Healy

Maurice Healy was an Irish nationalist politician, lawyer and Member of Parliament . As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he was returned to in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland four times between 1885 and 1918.He was one of twins, the third son born...

, Arthur O'Connor

Arthur O'Connor (MP)

Arthur O'Connor , was an Irish politician and Member of Parliament in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1880 to 1900.He was elected to the House of Commons as MP...

 and T. M. Sullivan

Timothy Daniel Sullivan

Timothy Daniel Sullivan was an Irish nationalist, journalist, politician and poet who wrote the Irish national hymn "God Save Ireland", in 1867...

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In the following 1900 UK general election

United Kingdom general election, 1900

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, Healyites stood in sixteen constituencies, of which seven were elected, John Cambell (Armagh South), John Hammond (Carlow), Peter Ffrench (Wexford South), James Carew

James Laurence Carew

James Laurence Carew was an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom...

, Maurice Healy, Timothy Healy and Patrick James Kennedy (Westmeath North). One of those who failed to be elected was William Martin Murphy

William Martin Murphy

William Martin Murphy was an Irish nationalist journalist, businessman and politician. A Member of Parliament representing Dublin from 1885 to 1892, he was dubbed 'William Murder Murphy' among Dublin workers and the press due to the Dublin Lockout of 1913...

, a close associate of Healys'.

Then in the general election in 1906

United Kingdom general election, 1906

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, this number fell to one, Timothy Healy himself, who later associated himself with the All-for-Ireland League

All-for-Ireland League

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...

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