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Events on Saturday 6 December 1890 1
1890Irish Parliamentary Party splits over ParnellCommittee Room 15 debates divide Irish nationalistsThe Irish Parliamentary Party split after its leader, Charles Stewart Parnell, was named in a divorce scandal involving Katharine O'Shea. A majority of MPs voted to depose him as chairman during the Committee Room 15 debates. The rupture badly damaged the Irish Home Rule movement for years.