Charles Stewart Parnell: His Love Story and Political Life
by Kitty O'Shea
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About This Book
If Daniel O Connell first articulated modern Irish nationalism, Parnell first organized it. This enigmatic, icy aristocrat became the unlikely and unchallenged leader of Irish nationalism in its early heroic phase. Without him, Home Rule would not have become the formidable cause that it was.Parnell not only mobilized nationalist Ireland, exploiting discontent with the land system and a desire for political autonomy, he also subverted the usages of nineteenth-century British politics by introducing the filibuster into the House of Commons, by dividing Gladstone s Liberal party between those wh...
Chapters (372)
- CHARLES STEWART PARNELL
- CHAPTER I MY EARLY LIFE
- CHAPTER II VISITORS AT RIVENHALL
- CHAPTER III MY FATHER'S DEATH AND MY MARRIAGE
- CHAPTER IV A DAY ON THE DOWNS
- CHAPTER V MORE FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES
- CHAPTER VI CAPTAIN O'SHEA ENTERS POLITICAL LIFE
- CHAPTER VII MR. PARNELL AND THE IRISH PARTY
- CHAPTER VIII THE FIRST MEETING WITH MR. PARNELL
- CHAPTER IX AT ELTHAM
- CHAPTER X THE LAND LEAGUE TRIALS
- CHAPTER XI PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATIONS
- CHAPTER XII HOBBIES AND A CHALLENGE
- CHAPTER XIII ASTRONOMY, "SEDITION," AND ARREST
- CHAPTER XIV KILMAINHAM DAYS
- CHAPTER XV MORE KILMAINHAM LETTERS
- CHAPTER XVI THE "KILMAINHAM TREATY"
- CHAPTER XVII THE PHOENIX PARK MURDERS AND AFTER
- CHAPTER XVIII ENVOY TO GLADSTONE
- CHAPTER XIX THE FIRST HOME RULE BILL
- CHAPTER XX MR. PARNELL IN DANGER—FOUNDING OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE
- CHAPTER XXI A WINTER OF MEMORIES
- CHAPTER XXII HORSES AND DOGS
- CHAPTER XXIII SEASIDE HOLIDAYS
- CHAPTER XXIV LONDON REMEMBRANCES
- CHAPTER XXV THE PARNELL COMMISSION
- CHAPTER XXVI BRIGHTON HAUNTS
- CHAPTER XXVII THE DIVORCE CASE [1]
- CHAPTER XXVIII A KING AT BAY
- CHAPTER XXIX PARNELL AS I KNEW HIM
- CHAPTER XXX MARRIAGE, ILLNESS AND DEATH
- INDEX
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