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JOHN DILLON (1851– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 273 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN DILLON (1851– )  , Irish nationalist politician, was the son of John Blake Dillon (1816–1866), who sat in parliament for
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Tipperary, and was one of the leaders of " Young Ireland." John Dillon was educated at the
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Roman Catholic university of
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Dublin, and afterwards studied
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medicine . He entered parliament in 188o as member for Tipperary, and was at first an ardent supporter of C . S . Parnell . In August he delivered a speech on the
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Land
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League at
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Kildare which was characterized as " wicked and cowardly " by W . E . Forster; he advocated boycotting, and was arrested in May 1881 under the Coercion Act, and again after two months of freedom in
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October . In 1883 he resigned his seat for reasons of
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health, but was returned unopposed in 1885 for East Mayo, which he continued to represent . He was one of the prime movers in the famous " plan of
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campaign," which provided that the tenant should pay his
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rent to the
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National League instead of the landlord, and in case of eviction be supported by the general fund . Mr Dillon was compelled by the court of queen's bench onthe 14th of December 1886 to find securities for good behaviour, but two days later he was arrested while receiving rents on Lord Clanricarde's estates . In this instance the
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jury disagreed, but in
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June 1888 under the provisions of the new Criminal Law Procedure
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Bill he was condemned to six months' imprisonment . He was, however, released in September, and in the spring of 1889 sailed for
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Australia and New Zealand, where he collected funds for the Nationalist party .

On his return to Ireland he was again arrested, but, being allowed

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bail, sailed to
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America, and failed to appear at the trial . He returned to Ireland by way of Boulogne, where he and Mr W . O'Brien held long and indecisive conferences with Parnell . They surrendered to the police in
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February, and on their release from
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Galway
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gaol in
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July declared their opposition to Parnell . After the expulsion of Mr T . M . Healy and others from the Irish National Federation, Mr Dillon became the chair-man (February 1896) . His early friendship with Mr O'Brien gave place to considerable hostility, but the various sections of the party were ostensibly reconciled in 1900 under the leadership of Mr Redmond . In the autumn of 1896 he arranged a convention of the Irish
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race, which included 2000 delegates from various parts of the
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world . In 1897 Mr Dillon opposed in the House the Address to Queen Victoria on the occasion of the
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Diamond Jubilee, on the ground that her reign had not been a blessing to Ireland, and he showed the same uncompromising attitude in 19o1 when a grant to Lord Roberts was under discussion, accusing him of " systematized inhumanity." He was suspended on the loth of March for violent language addressed to Mr Chamberlain . He married in 1895 Elizabeth (d . 1907), daughter of Lord Justice J .

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