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He, at considerable professional sacrifice, entered the Party, at the request of Mr Dillon and Mr O'Brien, as Member for West Mayo. The reward he received for all his patriotic services was to find himself opposed in 1910 by the Dillonite caucus because of his independent action on Irish questions. The General Election of 1900 witnessed a wonderful revival of national interest in Ireland.
But Mr Wyndham was treated by the Dillonite section as "a prisoner in a condemned cell" to use their own elegant metaphor because he showed a disposition to secure a settlement of the Irish difficulty on a non-party basis.
Mr Joseph Devlin, who had succeeded Mr John O'Donnell as Secretary of the United Irish League, now began to be a rather considerable figure in Irish politics on the Dillonite side.
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