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The Ivy Leaf: The Parnells Remembered
Donal McCartney Pauric Travers
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This collection of essays commemorates the Parnells of Avondale and simultaneously uses the theme of commemoration to provide an insight into the shifting relationship between history and memory in the case of Charles Stewart Parnell and his family. The essays by two leading Irish historians have an elegiac tone. The authors show an elegant and sympathetic appreciation of Parnell's career and of how he has been viewed in Irish history since his death in 1891. Parnell's nationalism is explored and his political speeches, the significance of his sojourn in Kilmainham, his American connections, his funeral and the rise and decline ... Read more
This collection of essays commemorates the Parnells of Avondale and simultaneously uses the theme of commemoration to provide an insight into the shifting relationship between history and memory in the case of Charles Stewart Parnell and his family. The essays by two leading Irish historians have an elegiac tone. The authors show an elegant and sympathetic appreciation of Parnell's career and of how he has been viewed in Irish history since his death in 1891. Parnell's nationalism is explored and his political speeches, the significance of his sojourn in Kilmainham, his American connections, his funeral and the rise and decline ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781904558590
SKU
V9781904558590
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Ref
99-21
About Donal McCartney Pauric Travers
DONAL MCCARTNEY is Professor Emeritus of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin and President of the Parnell Society. His publications include The Dawning of Democracy: Ireland 1800-1870 (1987); Parnell: the Politics of Power (1991), W.E.H. Lecky: Historian and Politician 1838-1903 (1994) and UCD - A National Idea (1999). PAURIC TRAVERS is President of St Patrick's College, Drumcondra and academic ... Read more
Reviews for The Ivy Leaf: The Parnells Remembered
"What does come through strongly in these talks ... is the extent to which these family members ... were dynamic were dynamic Irish people in their own right and worthy of the commemoration here afforded them ... The Ivy Leaf [is] a potential resource for anyone keen to explore further the full dimensions of the Parnell legacy, past and present." ... Read more