Charles Stewart Parnell is the most enigmatic figure in Irish history. An Anglo-Irish landlord from a distinguished and long-established Wicklow family, he became the most unlikely leader of Irish nationalism imaginable. He hated the colour green. He was not a dynamic speaker. He was cold and aloof and lacked the popular touch. None the less, from the late 1870s until his fall and death in 1891, he held the whole of Ireland spellbound. He established Home Rule for Ireland - previously a taboo subject in British politics - at the centre of Westminster affairs and effectively created the modern Irish state in embryo. His fall was as dramatic as his rise. The affair with Mrs Katharine O'Shea, the mother of his three children, destroyed him. Ever since this fall and his premature death in 1891, Parnell has remained a remarkably potent symbol, particularly in times of crisis and conflict in Ireland. The myth has obscured the man and makes it difficult for us to see Parnell as he really was. Paul Bew presents a completely new interpretation of this fascinating and enigmatic man.
Enigma A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell: Enigma
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"A significant new assessment of Charles Stewart Parnell and ...at once a masterpiece of compression and of clarity of expression, drawing on a rich vein of recent research." --Irish Independent, Oct 15 2011
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Paul Bew is Professor of Irish Politics at Queen's University Belfast. He is a former Parnell Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is currently a crossbench peer at Westminster and a member of the British-Irish Inter-parliamentary Assembly, as well as being Secretary to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on History and Archives. His most recent book is Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789 - 2006.
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'Engima' is a stunning, erudite analysis of one of the most intriguing and enigmatic figures in Irish political history.
This is probably the greatest piece of scholarly work available on Charles Stewart Parnell.
Over time, the supposed ambiguities of Parnell's political compass has often led to a variety of misguided interpretations among different agents.
Who exactly was 'The Chief' and what kind of politics did he ultimately espouse?
A radical republican committed to a proletariat revolution? Or a socially-conservative, parliamentarian seeking a more conciliatory form of national politics?
Professor Bew lucidly addresses these ambiguities and shatters some of the long held myths about the man known as the 'Uncrowned King of Ireland'.
This is probably the greatest piece of scholarly work available on Charles Stewart Parnell.
Over time, the supposed ambiguities of Parnell's political compass has often led to a variety of misguided interpretations among different agents.
Who exactly was 'The Chief' and what kind of politics did he ultimately espouse?
A radical republican committed to a proletariat revolution? Or a socially-conservative, parliamentarian seeking a more conciliatory form of national politics?
Professor Bew lucidly addresses these ambiguities and shatters some of the long held myths about the man known as the 'Uncrowned King of Ireland'.
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