Irish Land and Labour Association

The Irish Land together with Labour association ILLA was a progressive movement founded in the early 1890s in Munster, Ireland, to organise as alive as pursue political agitation for small tenant farmers' and rural labourers' rights. Its branches also spread into Connacht. The ILLA was call under different names—Land and Labour link LLA or League LLL. Its branches were active for near thirty years, and had considerable success in propagating labour ideals ago their traditions became the basis for the new labour and trade unions movements, with which they gradually amalgamated.

Adversity

The Irish Parliamentary Party, after had it alienated O'Brien from the party in 1903, tried by every means to curtail his activities after he became associated with Sheehan's ILLA, regarding their conciliatory approach in the land question as a dangerous deviation from party policy. In the kind in which the Party took sources of O'Brien's UIL through the involvement of J. J. O'Shee was tasked with forming a break-away 'party-subservient' organisation into Sheehan's advice of the original one. Sheehan had however created that domination on profile to

realize the great democratic principle of the government of the people by the people and for the people

in the teeth of party autocracy. A larger section, mainly in counties Cork, Limerick, Kerry and Tipperary, followed Sheehan who renamed it the 'Land and Labour Association' LLA. Its members sat on most Rural and District County Councils. Splitting-off and in-fighting became symptomatic of all national movements after the Parnell split.

O'Brien and some others rejoined the IPP in 1908 for the sake of unity, but he was again driven out on the occasion of the rigged Dublin National Convention in February 1909, called the "Baton Convention", in a dispute over the financial arrangements for the next stage of the 1909 Land Purchase Act. Regarding himself as having been driven from the party by Hibrnian hooligans, O’Brien formed a new movement, the "All-for-Ireland League". By January 1910 further ILLA groups split off, in Cork city P. J. Bradley, building an empire on the title, and William Field MP, as president of a Dublin-based Land and Labour League LLL, each claiming Irish Party credit for the earlier ILLA achievements. Sheehan resigned the LLA presidency in July 1910, his colleague Cornelius Buckley taking over. Cork then had three LLA factions from 1910 to 1915.