Independent Nationalist was a political title frequently used by Irish nationalists

Irish nationalism

Irish nationalism manifests itself in political and social movements and in sentiment inspired by a love for Irish culture, language and history, and as a sense of pride in Ireland and in the Irish people...

 when contesting elections to the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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 of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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 not as members of 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 late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In the main, but certainly not always, such Independent Nationalist candidates were either the Healyite Nationalist

Healyite Nationalist

The Healyite Nationalists were Irish Nationalist politicians who supported Timothy Healy MP.Healy was the most outspoken member of the anti-Parnellite majority in the Irish Parliamentary Party...

s, supporters of Timothy Michael 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...

, or the O'Brienite Nationalist

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...

s, supporters of William O'Brien

William O'Brien

William O'Brien was an Irish nationalist, journalist, agrarian agitator, social revolutionary, politician, party leader, newspaper publisher, author and Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...

.

Some others were elected as Independent Nationalists outside of the above groupings, such as Timothy Harrington (1900) & (1906), Joseph Nolan

Joseph Nolan

Joseph Nolan was an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he represented North Louth from 1885–92, and South Louth from 1900-18...

 (1900), D. D. Sheehan

D. D. Sheehan

Daniel Desmond Sheehan, usually known as D. D. Sheehan was an Irish nationalist, politician, labour leader, journalist, barrister and author...

 (1906), Laurence Ginnell

Laurence Ginnell

Laurence Ginnell was an Irish nationalist politician, lawyer and Member of Parliament of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party for Westmeath North at the 1906 UK general election, from 1910 he sat as an Independent...

 (1910), William Redmond and James Cosgrave

James Cosgrave

James Cosgrave was an Irish nationalist politician, one of the few parliamentarians who served in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and in Dáil Éireann....

 (1923), Michael O'Neill

Michael O'Neill (politician)

Michael O'Neill was an Irish politician in the United Kingdom.O'Neill was educated at Dromore National School and Bellisle Academy. He was a farmer and a chairman of the Gaelic Athletic Association...

 (1951), John Hume

John Hume

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 (1969), Paddy O'Hanlon

Paddy O'Hanlon

Patrick Michael O'Hanlon , known as Paddy O'Hanlon, was a barrister and former nationalist politician in Ireland....

 (1969) and Ivan Cooper

Ivan Cooper

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 (1969).

More recently Deirdre Anne Gates, a Hertfordshire County Councillor for South Oxhey sat as an Independent Nationalist after resigning from the BNP in August 2010, before joining the English Democrats in July 2011.