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Excerpt from The Parnellite Split: Or, the Disruption of the Irish Parliamentary Party Little, however, as the political consequences of the divorce action had been foreseen, they constituted nothing less than a political catastrophe. Nothing like it, either for the dramatic interest of its development, or for the effect it promises to exercise on the fortunes of political parties in the United Kingdom, has occurred within the memory of the present generation. It is believed, therefore, that a permanent record of these events will be acceptable, not only to students of history and politics, but to all who take an interest in public affairs, whether at home or abroad. Accordingly, it has been determined to republish in the present volume the letters, manifestoes, and other documents issued by the several parties to the conflict, together with the reports of the meet ings of the Irish Parliamentary party during the crisis. Some por tions of the Interview with Mr. Davitt of November 26, and also one or two passages of the debates in No. 15 Committee Room, have been omitted, as they appeared to be devoid of permanent interest, and some trifling alterations of a verbal nature have been made in orderte preserve the continuity of the narrative. With these exceptions the whole of the present volume has been re printed from the reports which appeared from day to day in the columns of The Times. All the documents quoted have been reproduced at length. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.