Notes on Contributors
Introduction
DONAL McCARTNEY
- Parnell and the Meaning of Home Rule
D. G. BOYCE
- The Odd Couple? Gladstone, Parnell and Home Rule
Margaret Ward
- Anna Parnell
- Challenges to Male Authority and the Telling of National Myth
Pauric Travers
- Parnell and Religion
Felix M. Larkin
- Parnell, Politics and the Press in Ireland, 1875-1924
Myles Dungan
- Mr Parnell's Rottweiler
- Parnell and United Ireland 1881-1891
Fionnuala Waldron
- Defending the Cause
- Parnell and the Drink Interest
Pat Power
- The Parnells and Paris
Donal McCartney
- Parnell and Sexual Scandal
Pauric Travers
- The March of the Nation
- Parnell's 'ne plus ultra' Speech
Donal McCartney
- Parnell's Manifesto to the Irish People
Notes
Index.
‘A good volume should offer essays that will contribute to a variety of subfields within the larger topic. Judged by these standards, Parnell Reconsidered passes the test and in doing so demonstrates why these books of specialized essays that might not otherwise appear elsewhere are still important and useful to scholars … The subject of this volume, Charles Stewart Parnell, the co-called Uncrowned King of Ireland, continues to fascinate.’
Victorian Studies, Spring 2016
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‘This is a major reassessment of one of the most influential leaders in the making of modern British and Irish politics … these essays represent an important contribution to the field, and are particularly welcome to scholars interested in Liberalism.’
Journal of Liberal History, Winter 2015–16
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‘This well-crafted selection of essays, edited by Pauric Travers and Donal McCartney, should be seen as a very welcome addition to the bookshelf of Parnell studies. It caters for the general reader as much as the specialist and it could be seen as an ideal and up-to-date introduction to themes in the life and times of Charles Stewart Parnell’
Conor Mulvagh, UCD, English Historical Review, August 2015
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‘The most interesting chapters break off from the high politics of the period to consider aspects of Parnell’s character; indeed, the most original essays tend not to examine Parnell himself but the wider world in which he inhabited.’
Irish Literary Supplement, Spring 2015
‘This collection engages in an interesting manner with the varied facets of a major political figure in the contexts of Faith, Family and Fatherland which should provide something of interest for scholars of Irish history generally.’
Studia Hibernica, 2014
‘In general, this is historical writing of a high order, giving students and general readers alike epitomes of the most recent research on Parnell … This is a splendid collection of essays, filled with insight and illuminative detail.’
Studies, Spring 2015
'The challenge of discussing Parnell in the light of his own words, deeds and contexts is … formidable and that this volume succeeds reflects the quality of the contributors and their research … For Parnellites – and who today is not a Parnellite? – this is a highly recommended collection of essays by some of the leading historians of today’s Ireland, a country once again in search of “Home Rule” though now from international finance capitalism.'
Dublin Review of Books, December 2013
'All the presentations in this volume are of interest, indeed some are by important and long established historians.
But for this reviewer at least two stand out: Pat Power writing about “The Parnells and Paris”, and Fionnuala Waldron on the nuanced matter of the relations of Parnell and his party with the Irish drink trade.'
The Irish Catholic, 21 November 2013