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    Charles Stewart Parnell, A Biography: The Definitive Biography of the Uncrowned King of Ireland
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    Charles Stewart Parnell, A Biography: The Definitive Biography of the Uncrowned King of Ireland

    By F.S.L. Lyons

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    In this masterly biography, F.S.L. Lyons tackles the life and times of one of the greatest Irish statesmen of modern times. One of modern Irish biography’s great triumphs, Charles Stewart Parnell has never been approached or surpassed.

    Charles Stewart Parnell, an enigmatic, icy aristocrat, was the unlikely and unchallenged leader of Irish nationalism from the mid-1870s, in its early heroic phase. Without him, Home Rule would not have become the formidable cause that it was.

    Daniel O’Connell first articulated modern Irish nationalism; Parnell first organised it. As leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1875 until his death in 1891, Parnell became a figurehead for Irish nationalist ambition and used his influence to further the cause of Irish independence in the British parliament.

    Parnell not only mobilised 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 supporting the introduction of the filibuster into the House of Commons. He divided Gladstone’s Liberal party between those who supported Home Rule and those who opposed it and generally forced the Irish question to the heart of British politics where it remained until 1922. Even today, the continuing uncertainty over the future of Northern Ireland is a remote legacy of Parnell.

    Parnell’s fall – the product of his doomed and passionate love affair with Katharine O’Shea – was the most traumatic moment in nationalist history before 1916. It divided a generation. The passions it gave rise to, brilliantly recalled in the Christmas dinner scene of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, are fully explored in this magnificent work of scholarship.

    Charles Stewart Parnell: Table of Contents
    1. The Meeting of the Waters
    2. Apprenticeship
    3. Rising High
    4. Crisis
    5. In the Eye of the Storm
    6. Kilmainham
    7. The New Course
    8. Gathering Pace
    9. Towards the Fulcrum
    10. The Galway ‘Mutiny’
    11. The View from Pisgah
    12. In the Shadows
    13. Ireland in the Strand
    14. Apotheosis
    15. The Crash
    16. Confrontation
    17. Breaking-Point
    18. A Time of Rending
    19. Last Chance
    20. La Commedia è Finita
    21. Myth and Reality
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGill Books
    Release dateOct 4, 2005
    ISBN9780717163960
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    Charles Stewart Parnell, A Biography: The Definitive Biography of the Uncrowned King of Ireland
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    F.S.L. Lyons

    The late F.S.L. Lyons was one of the most distinguished historians of modern Ireland. Born in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1923, he was Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin, at Hull University and later at Kent University. The author of Ireland since the Famine, he was Provost of Trinity College, Dublin from 1974 to 1981. He died in Dublin in 1983.

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