On 27 June 1846 Charles Stewart Parnell was born. The most significant and controversial Irish politician of the late nineteenth century, Parnell was also an important influence on the world of James Joyce, and there are references to Parnell in all of Joyce’s works. Parnell was born into a landowning Protestant family in Wicklow. Elected […]
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On this day…6 October
On 6 October 1891 Parnell died. Parnell had been in decline from the time William O’Shea had sued for divorce from his wife Katherine with whom Parnell was having an affair. By the time he left Ireland at the end of September 1891, he was a broken man, but his death, at the age of […]