Charles Stewart Parnell - Softcover

Lyons, F.S.L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0717139395 ISBN 13: 9780717139392

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

If Daniel O'Connell first articulated modern Irish nationalism, Parnell first organised it. This enigmatic, icy aristocrat became the unlikely and unchallenged leader of Irish nationalism in its early heroic phase. Without him, Home Rule would not have become the formidable cause that it was. 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 introducing the filibuster into the House of Commons, by dividing 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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0717139395
• ISBN 13: 9780717139392
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 736