[1]: 163 Dixon joined the Parnell Leadership Committee, established in December 1890 at the National Club to create an alliance between local government officials across the country to consolidate the support base of Charles Stuart Parnell following the divorce scandal,[1]: 196 and was on the executive of the associated Parnell Leadership Fund, whose purpose was to raise money to maintain a Parnellite presence in the press, with Allan and Wyse Power.
[1]: 201 In 1891, the National Club Literary Society, which had been active on the Parnellite side throughout the crisis, called on nationalist literary and political societies to unite under a single body, and in September that year the Young Ireland League (YIL) was formed.
[1]: 209 Dixon was on the executive of the YIL with MacBride and Lavelle; they organised republican commemorative events, including those of the National Monuments Committee, in Dublin.
[1]: 235 During this period Dixon wrote political letters to the radical Belfast newspaper, the Northern Patriot.
[1]: 244 When, in 1896, a provisional committee was set up to celebrate the centenary of the 1798 Rebellion, Dixon, Lavelle, and Allan were members.
[1]: 246 Dixon was active in the Celtic Literary Society, run by William Rooney, of which Arthur Griffith was also a member.