Irish Dominion League

[3] It attracted modest support from middle-class Dubliners of moderate unionist and nationalist backgrounds, anxious to achieve a compromise in the face of the escalating conflict between the Irish Republican Army and the British.

[9] The Unionist Anti-Partition League of St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton discussed joining but decided the platform was too nationalist.

[9] Many of the League's senior members were drawn from the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society.

[11] The debate surrounding the proposed bill helped to raise the prominence of the League, although it failed to gain support in the British parliament.

Wells wrote, "The Irish Dominion League did not attract a great deal of active support in Ireland, but it was hardly expected to do so inasmuch as it was chiefly a propagandist organisation".