sentences:  When the Irish Parliamentary Party split over the question of Parnell's leadership in December 1890, Quinn supported Parnell.However he disagreed with Parnell over the latter's treatment of the disputed "Paris funds" and in May 1891 he applied for the Whip of the Anti-Parnellite Parliamentary Party chaired by Justin McCarthy.The Anti-Parnellites were seriously divided between the factions led on the one hand by Timothy Healy, and on the other by John Dillon and William O'Brien; between them Quinn was a neutral.