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- Parnell and His Times
- Frontispiece
- Parnell and His Times
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- Part I Parnell’s Ireland and Its Different Temporalities
- Chapter 1 O’Connell and Parnell
- Chapter 2 The Paradoxes of Parnell
- Chapter 3 Parnell to Pearse
- Chapter 4 Race, Nation, State
- Chapter 5 Parnell’s Other Ireland
- Chapter 6 Inside History
- Chapter 7 Digesting the Past
- Chapter 8 The Writing of County Histories in Parnell’s Ireland
- Part II After Parnell
- Index
Chapter 2 - The Paradoxes of Parnell
from Part I - Parnell’s Ireland and Its Different Temporalities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2020
- Parnell and His Times
- Frontispiece
- Parnell and His Times
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgement
- Introduction
- Part I Parnell’s Ireland and Its Different Temporalities
- Chapter 1 O’Connell and Parnell
- Chapter 2 The Paradoxes of Parnell
- Chapter 3 Parnell to Pearse
- Chapter 4 Race, Nation, State
- Chapter 5 Parnell’s Other Ireland
- Chapter 6 Inside History
- Chapter 7 Digesting the Past
- Chapter 8 The Writing of County Histories in Parnell’s Ireland
- Part II After Parnell
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores the contradictions in Parnell’s political personality. Parnell emerged as a major political figure with a revolutionary aura. By the time of his death, many nationalists claimed to detect that he had, after all, a bias in favour of the Protestant landlord class from which he had sprung. There is no doubt that Parnell’s relationship with Katherine O’Shea, a woman with strong establishment connections, strengthened his conservatism, especially in the context in which the Land League movement, which he led, was losing momentum anyway. But this is not simply a matter of conjunctural transition but the emergence of underlying assumptions in Parnell’s mind which were present even in the most intense and heavy days of the Land War.
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- Parnell and his Times , pp. 36 - 52Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020