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However its success in 1874 was marred by the lack of unity within the party in the British House Of Commons , where many of its members in effect sat as Liberal MPs and voted against their own Irish colleagues. It was not until then chairman Charles Stewart Parnell in the early 1880s introduced a strict Whip that the party began to exercise serious influence, and act as a unit, in Westminster . |
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