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Charles Stewart Parnell
Francis Stewart Leland Lyons
出版Gill & Macmillan, 2005
主題Biography & Autobiography / HistoricalBiography & Autobiography / MilitaryBiography & Autobiography / PoliticalHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / IrelandHistory / Military / Revolutions & Wars of IndependenceHistory / Modern / GeneralPolitical Science / Colonialism & Post-ColonialismPolitical Science / ImperialismPolitical Science / World / European
ISBN07171393959780717139392
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tM-fAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"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 supporting the introduction of the filibuster into the House of Commons. He divided 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. Even today, the continuing uncertainty over the future of Northern Ireland is a remote legacy of Parnell." "Parnell's fall - the product of his doomed and passionate love affair with Katharine O'Shea - was the most traumatic moment in nationalist history before 1916. It divided a generation. Its passions are recalled in the Christmas dinner scene of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."--BOOK JACKET.