Editing Tim Healy (politician) (section)

==Coalition of a kind==

[[File:All-for-Ireland League MPs, 1910.jpg|thumb|350px|right|[[All-for-Ireland League]] group portrait of five of its Independent [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Members of Parliament]], 1910. <br />These are: [[Patrick Guiney]] ([[North Cork (UK Parliament constituency)|North Cork]]), [[James Gilhooly]] ([[West Cork (UK Parliament constituency)|West Cork]]), [[Maurice Healy]] ([[North-East Cork (UK Parliament constituency)|North-east Cork]]), [[D. D. Sheehan]] ([[Mid Cork (UK Parliament constituency)|Mid Cork]]), and [[Eugene Crean]] ([[South-East Cork (UK Parliament constituency)|South-east Cork]]). <br />The other MPs elected in January 1910 were: [[William O'Brien]] ([[Cork City (UK Parliament constituency)|Cork city]]), [[John O'Donnell (Irish politician, born 1866)|John O'Donnell]] ([[South Mayo (UK Parliament constituency)|South Mayo]]) and '''Timothy Michael Healy''' ([[North Louth (UK Parliament constituency)|North Louth]]).<br />Maurice and Timothy Healy were brothers.]]

However, at least after 1903, Healy was joined in his estrangement from the party leadership by [[William O'Brien]]. O’Brien had been for years one of Healy's strongest critics, but now he too felt annoyed both by his own alienation from the party and by Redmond's subservience to Dillon. Involved with the [[Irish Reform Association]] 1904–5, they entered a loose coalition, which lasted throughout the life of the IPP. They were in agreement that agrarian radicalism brought little return, and with Healy practically becoming a Parnellite, they preferred to pursue a policy of conciliation with the Protestant class in order to further the acceptance of Home Rule. Redmond was sympathetic to this policy but was inhibited by Dillon. Redmond, in an act of {{lang|fr|rapprochement}}, briefly re-united them with the party in 1908. Fiercely independent, both split off again in 1909, responding to real changes in the social basis of Irish politics. In 1908 Healy acted as counsel for [[Arthur Vicars|Sir Arthur Vicars]], former [[Ulster King of Arms]], in connection with the 1908 investigation of the previous year's theft of the [[Irish Crown Jewels]].

By the 1910s, it looked as though Healy was to remain a maverick on the fringes of Irish nationalism. However, he came into notoriety once more when returned in the [[January 1910 United Kingdom general election|January 1910 general election]] in alliance with William O'Brien's newly founded [[All-for-Ireland League|All-for-Ireland Party]] (AFIL), their alliance based largely on common opposition to the Irish party. He lost his seat in the following [[December 1910 United Kingdom general election|December 1910 election]], but soon afterwards rejoined the O'Brienites, O’Brien providing the 1911 north-east Cork by-election vacancy created by the retirement of [[Moreton Frewen]]. Healy's reputation was not enhanced when he represented as counsel his associate William Martin Murphy, the industrialist who sparked the 1913 [[Dublin Lockout]].{{sfn|Callanan|1996}} Healy assiduously cultivated relationships with power brokers in Westminster such as [[Lord Beaverbrook]], and once they were introduced at Cherkley, was great friends with Janet Aitken for the remainder of his life.<ref name=kidd>{{harvnb|Kidd|1988}}</ref>