Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Emma Caroline Wood | ECW
's youngest daughter, Katherine, later known as Kitty O'Shea
, became mistress and then wife of Charles Parnell
. Her divorce case from William Henry O'Shea
famously cost Parnell his position as chairman of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Tynan | KT
's father, Andrew Cullen Tynan
, came from a long line of Irish farmers from Cheeverstown in Dublin and from County Wicklow. He was born from a mixed marriage: his mother was Catholic... |
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... |
Occupation | Katharine Tynan | One of her activities as a member of the League was to visit Irish political prisoners at Kilmainham Jail (now in Dublin). She went to see Irish nationalist Charles Parnell
on one such visit... |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | In LondonKT
met the politician William Gladstone
(a supporter of Home Rule for Ireland) at a party given for Charles Parnell
. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder. 328-9 |
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... |
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 |
Textual Production | Katharine Tynan | |
Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | KT
found that her staunch support for Parnell
after the divorce case was now punished with some damaging criticism of this biography. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder. 382 Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable. 66 |
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
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katherine Cecil Thurston | Paul Madden
, KCT
's father, was director and chairman of the Ulster and Leinster Bank
as well as an Alderman of the City of Cork. An associate of politician Charles Stewart Parnell
(and... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Helen Taylor | HT
made a fighting speech (following the government's suppression of the Irish Land League
and imprisonment of Charles Stewart Parnell
) on the iniquities which were now disgracing England in Ireland (which, she pointed out... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Steele | AS
's youngest sister, by marriage Katherine or Katharine O'Shea
, became notorious because of her involvement with Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell
. The sisters were said to have shared a disregard for conventions... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Steele | Through her youngest sister AS
met many key figures of the day, including Irish Home-Rule leader Charles Stewart Parnell
(Katherine O'Shea's long-term lover and eventual husband), and Justin McCarthy
, novelist and Irish Home-Rule MP... |
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