Charles Stewart Parnell

Standard Name: Parnell, Charles Stewart

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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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Katharine Tynan
This volume runs from her youth up to Charles Stewart Parnell 's death in 1891, the closing of an important historical and personal chapter. She spends considerable time on her relationship with her father ...
Textual Production Katharine Tynan
KT took up journalism to make money. She wrote sketches, short stories, and articles for British and US journals, many of them Catholic , including the Boston Pilot, the Providence Sunday Journal, the...
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
Reception Katharine Tynan
After Parnell was found guilty of adultery in 1890, the Irish Monthly, which had previously featured KT 's poetry, refused to print any more of her work because of her support for him.
Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder.
377
Reception Helen Taylor
Branches of the Irish Ladies' Land League (one in north London and one in Manchester) were named after HT . Charles Stewart Parnell , however, did not approve of women joining the struggle (he...
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...
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...
politics Katharine Tynan
She had attended the first meeting of the Ladies' Land League , which was formed on 31 January 1881 by Anna Catherine Parnell , sister of Charles Parnell (the Irish nationalist and founder in 1879...
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...
politics Katharine Tynan
KT was a Parnellite: that is, she continued to support the Irish nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell even after he was found guilty of adultery in the O'Shea divorce case in November 1890. Parnell had led...
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 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 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 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...

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20 February 1874: In the election of this year, Irish Home...

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20 February 1874

In the election of this year, Irish Home Rule candidates increased their parliamentary presence more than tenfold, from five to 59 members.

1877: Charles Stewart Parnell was elected President...

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1877

Charles Stewart Parnell was elected President of the Home Rule Association of Great Britain ; this event signalled the increasing irrelevance of Home Rule leader Isaac Butt .

1879: Charles Stewart Parnell assumed leadership...

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1879

Charles Stewart Parnell assumed leadership of the Home Rule party.

7 June 1879: Charles Stewart Parnell addressed a mass...

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7 June 1879

Charles Stewart Parnell addressed a mass meeting of 8,000 Irish on the subject of tenant rights, land agitation, and fair rent.

Later 1879: In a year when the Irish harvest failed almost...

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Later 1879

In a year when the Irish harvest failed almost entirely, the Irish National Land League was formed in Dublin, with Charles Stewart Parnell as president.

17 May 1880: Charles Stewart Parnell was elected Chairman...

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17 May 1880

Charles Stewart Parnell was elected Chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party .

January 1881: Charles Stewart Parnell and several prominent...

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January 1881

Charles Stewart Parnell and several prominent Irish Land League members were tried on various charges, the most general of which was demoralizing the Irish; they were all acquitted.

31 January 1881: At the end of the month in which Charles...

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31 January 1881

At the end of the month in which Charles Stewart Parnell stood trial for demoralizing the Irish people, his sister Anna Catherine Parnell launched the Ladies' Land League in Ireland; like the original Land League

2 March 1881: The Protection of Person and Property (Ireland)...

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2 March 1881

The Protection of Person and Property (Ireland) Act allowed for arrest on a Lord-Lieutenant's warrant of any person suspected of engaging in acts of treason or of inciting violence.

13 October 1881: Charles Stewart Parnell was arrested on political...

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13 October 1881

Charles Stewart Parnell was arrested on political charges and spent the next 5 months in the Kilmainham Gaol.

March 1882: The Kilmainham Treaty was struck between...

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March 1882

The Kilmainham Treaty was struck between Irish Home Rulers, led by Charles Stewart Parnell , and Gladstone 's government; the agreement extended rent protection to Irish leaseholders, while Parnell agreed to cooperate with the Liberal...

May 1882: Thomas Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish,...

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May 1882

Thomas Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish , Under-Secretary and incoming Chief Secretary for Ireland, were murdered in Phoenix Park, Dublin, by extremist Fenians calling themselves the Invincibles.

12 September 1882: Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Davitt,...

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12 September 1882

Charles Stewart Parnell , Michael Davitt , and John Dillon transformed the Irish Land League (now an illegal organization) into a new National League intended to further Irish nationalist political agendas.

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 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.

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