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Paperback. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Lightly sunned spine. Inscribed on half title page to previous owner. Light nicks, remains very good
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91), the greatest Irish politician of the late nineteenth century, forfeited leadership of the Irish Party in Westminster because of a divorce scandal, after a decade in which he had placed the Irish Question at the centre of British politics. Victim of the Nonconformist Conscience and Catholic rectitude, he fought fiercely but died with a year, aged forty-five. In this little-known, brilliant memoir of 1898, former Freeman’s Journal editor Edward Byrne sketches the Irish leader in his later years, between the ordeal and triumph of the Parnell Commission, and his fall. He records Parnell’s private assessment of ... Read more
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91), the greatest Irish politician of the late nineteenth century, forfeited leadership of the Irish Party in Westminster because of a divorce scandal, after a decade in which he had placed the Irish Question at the centre of British politics. Victim of the Nonconformist Conscience and Catholic rectitude, he fought fiercely but died with a year, aged forty-five. In this little-known, brilliant memoir of 1898, former Freeman’s Journal editor Edward Byrne sketches the Irish leader in his later years, between the ordeal and triumph of the Parnell Commission, and his fall. He records Parnell’s private assessment of ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9780946640829
SKU
KCW0017518
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Ref
99-1
About Edward Byrne
FRANK CALLANAN, barrister and writer, introduces this ‘haunting text of the Parnell muth’, outlining Byrne’s career and the role of the press in the emergence of Parnell as a modern political celebrity. The work is augmented by iconography from newspapers and periodicals of the time.
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