Charles Stewart Parnell has proved a compelling figure in his own time and to ours. A Protestant landlord who possessed few of the gifts that inspire mass adoration, he was the unlikely object of popular veneration. His long liaison with a married woman, Katharine O'Shea, exposed him to the fury of the Catholic Church. Other Protestants secured niches in the pantheon of national heroes but nearly all earned their places as victims of British rule; Parnell's destruction came at Irish hands. Since initial publication in 1998, new evidence and fresh interpretations allow for a fuller and yet more complex portrait for this revised account of Parnell's life. This revision considers Parnell's career within the context of his times, Anglo-Irish affairs, and theoretical perspectives. It makes extensive use of Parnell's public and parliamentary speeches, arguing that he was an exemplar of new forms of political communication and expressed a coherent ideology rooted in the liberal radicalism of the age. In the end he was a victim of his own successes and of a virulent nationalism that squeezed out the immediate possibility of an inclusive nation. Parnell's vision, though, was never wholly submerged and would reappear in the more cosmopolitan atmosphere of contemporary Ireland.
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Publication Date: 17 Sep 2012
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Publication City/Country: Ireland
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781906359331
About Alan DalyDr. Alan O'Day
Alan O'Day was a Fellow Greyfriars Hall University of Oxford. He continues to live quietly in the city of dreaming spires. His 35 books include The English Face of Irish Nationalism (Dublin 1977) Parnell and the First Home Rule Episode (Dublin 1986) and Irish Home Rule 1867-1921 (Manchester 1998). With N. C. Fleming he edited Charles Stewart Parnell and His Times: A Bibliography (Santa Barbara CA 2011) The Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History Since 1800 (London 2005) and Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations since 1800: Critical Essays (3 vols Aldershot 2008). He and John Stevenson edited Irish Historical Documents since 1800 (Dublin 1992) and six volumes of original essays with D. George Boyce.
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