late 1960s. The party was eventually subsumed into the Irish Independence Party in October 1977. The party in Great Britain In addition to the organisations in Ireland outlined above, the term Nationalist Party was also used to describe the party run in Liverpool during the 1920s by T.P. O'Connor, MP for the Liverpool Scotland division. After O'Connor's death in 1929, no candidate stood in the ensuing by-election to succeed him in the Irish Nationalist interest. Leaders Home Rule League Isaac Butt 1874–1879 William Shaw 1879–1880 Charles Stewart Parnell 1880–1882 Irish Parliamentary Party Charles Stewart Parnell 1882–1891 John Redmond (Parnellite minority) 1891–1900 Justin McCarthy (anti-Parnellite majority) 1891–1892 John Dillon (anti-Parnellite majority) 1892–1900 John Redmond (reunited party) 1900–1918 Joe Devlin 1918–1921 Nationalist Party (Northern Ireland) Joe Devlin 1921–1934 Thomas Joseph Campbell 1934–1946 James McSparran 1946–1953 Eddie McAteer 1953–1959 Cahir Healy 1959–1965 Eddie McAteer 1965–1973 Fergus McAteer 1973–1977 See also List of Nationalist Party (Ireland) MPs External links Irish nationalist organisations Defunct political parties in Ireland Defunct political parties in the Republic of Ireland Defunct political parties in Northern Ireland