Charles Stewart Parnell

Standard Name: Parnell, Charles Stewart

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politics Dora Sigerson
DS accompanied Katharine Tynan to a mass meeting for the National Land League at the Rotunda in Dublin, where Charles Parnell spoke, just as his naming in the O'Shea divorce case was fatally dividing...
Cultural formation Dora Sigerson
DS grew up in a highly-educated, intellectual, Irish-Catholic family. Both her parents were writers, as was her sister. Her childhood home was a centre of intellectual activity in Dublin, and prominent Irish literary...
politics Dora Sigerson
Like her friend Katharine Tynan , DS was a Parnellite: that is, they continued to support the Irish nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell even after he was found guilty of adultery in the O'Shea Divorce Case...
politics Kate O'Brien
KOB had been brought up, before the Easter Uprising, to admire Parnell , John Redmond , and Mr Asquith .
O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford.
112
Now, she says, she gradually learned that she was a lifelong non-fanatic and non-patriot,...
politics Charlotte Grace O'Brien
CGOB 's existing involvement in Irish politics became stronger and more focussed in 1880, a year of steeply increased emigration from Ireland. She was a supporter of Parnell , with an interest in Nationalist politics...
politics Hannah Lynch
In 1882 Anna's brother Charles Parnell , president of the Irish Land League , stopped funds to the Ladies' Land League and to his sister. Anna never spoke to him again.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Anna Parnell
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
politics May Laffan
ML became involved with various political scenes through her family members and friends. The Fitzgibbon half of her family were conservative Unionists, and she was influenced by her maternal great-uncle Gerald Fitzgibbon 's essay collection...
Material Conditions of Writing May Laffan
She was furious at being identified, as she intensely disliked publicity. In an angry letter to George Grove , editor of the magazine, she wrote: I thought I had clearly made it understood to the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text May Laffan
Other topics touched on here are the prison experience of her nationalist friend Michael Davitt , her own experiences on the Executive Committee of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children , and...
politics Augusta Gregory
By AG 's own account, her politics shifted around 1896, when she suddenly became aware of the change that had come about in Ireland in those first years after Parnell 's death.
Gregory, Augusta. Selected Writings. Editors McDiarmid, Lucy and Maureen Waters, Penguin.
37
She welcomed...
Intertextuality and Influence Augusta Gregory
The Deliverer uses the Biblical story of the rejection of Moses by the ancient Israelites as an analogue for Parnell 's rejection by the Irish.
Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum.
217
politics Florence Dixie
From 1882, FD gave most of her political energies to the condition of Ireland. She was opposed to Parnell and his Land League , suspecting them of misuse of funds, and believed that only...
Residence May Crommelin
Helen C. Black dated the end of MC 's girlhood in Ireland to the beginning of Irish land troubles:
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. Maclaren.
210
she probably meant the unrest and activism associated with the founding of the Irish National Land League
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
During her period at Newbridge after her return from school, FPC became good friends with her nearest neighbour, Sophia Parnell , great-aunt of Charles Stewart Parnell .
Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin.
1: 169
Family and Intimate relationships Annie Besant
His relatives included John Page Wood , husband of novelist Emma Caroline Wood . This pair were the parents of Anna Steele (another novelist), Katharine O'Shea (mistress and later the wife of Charles Stuart Parnell

Timeline

6 December 1889: Charles Stewart Parnell, having lost credit...

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6 December 1889

Charles Stewart Parnell , having lost credit among Roman Catholics and the support of England's Liberal Government over the O'SheaKatharine O'Shea divorce case, refused to resign as chairman of the Irish Party after the Home Rulers split.

6 October 1891: Charles Parnell, Irish patriot, died at Brighton...

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6 October 1891

Charles Parnell , Irish patriot, died at Brighton in Sussex; Virginia Woolf used his death to date the second section in her novel The Years, 1937.

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