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Parnell's own newspaper, the United Ireland, attacked the Land Act and he was arrested on 13 October 1881 together with his party lieutenants, William O ' Brien, John Dillon, Michael Davitt and Willie Redmond, who had also conducted a bitter verbal offensive.

They were imprisoned under a proclaimed Coercion Act in Kilmainham Gaol for " sabotaging the Land Act ", from where the No Rent Manifesto, which Parnell and the others signed, was issued calling for a national tenant farmer rent strike.

The Land League was suppressed immediately.