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C.S. Parnell

Paul Bew

出版	Gill and Macmillan, 1980
主題	Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Historical
ISBN	07171107969780717110797
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=q6NnAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Charles Stewart Parnell is not just one of the key figures of modern Irish history: he is also one of the most enigmatic. He was a wealthy, Protestant landlord who led a largely Catholic land reform and nationalist movement. He was an apparently cold, aloof man whose political downfall was precipitated by his passionate love affair with another man's wife. He was not a great orator in a country that loves oratory, yet he dominated its public life as no man has done before or since. In this short biography, Paul Bew tries to resolve some of the apparent contradictions in Parnell's life and career. He argues that Parnell was fundamentally a constitutionalist and that his primary concern was the survival of his own landlord class, safely integrated into a new Ireland.