Charles Stewart Parnell - The Uncrowned King of Ireland

Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 6 October 1891) was an Irish Protestant landowner, nationalist political leader, land reform agitator, and the founder and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. He was one of the most important figures in 19th century Ireland and Great Britain and described by Prime Minister William Gladstone as the most remarkable person he had ever met.

Parnell led the Irish Parliamentary Party through the period of Parliamentary nationalism in Ireland between 1875 and his death in 1891. Future Liberal Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, described him as one of the three or four greatest men of the nineteenth century, while Lord Haldane described him as the strongest man the British House of Commons had seen in 150 years. The Irish Parliamentary Party split during 1890, following revelations of Parnell's private life intruding on his political career. He is nevertheless revered by subsequent Irish parliamentary nationalists.

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[MattThompson1990]

@godbrother10 Irish Republicanism has everything to do with religion, read a book.

[godbrother10]

@MattThompson1990 Irish republicanism was founded by Affluent Northern Protestants. Read a book.

[TheRealConorKelly]

@godbrother10 both wolfe tone and the great parnell were prods. as were many brave men who fought to defend their HOME not their religion. much respect godbrother you know you history

[afertyus1000]

@sternumagnum lol

[sternumagnum]

@afertyus1000 Maybe he knew where the Gold was buried.

[afertyus1000]

@sternumagnum well why would my dad who is 90 and always wanted a united ireland call the coulours green white and gold and definitely not orange?

[sternumagnum]

Maany people of good will but nonetheless badly informed still believe that Ireland's struggle is predominantly a religious one. They should simply note the colours of the Irish flag itself, explicitly denoting the call to both Green and Orange for a free, united Ireland. Preferably by peaceful means, denoted by the White colour.

[shanem365]

I used to live in a log box with parnell

[wolfandcub0070]

"In bad times a tenant cannot be expected to pay as much as he did in good times","you must hold a firm grip on your homesteads","you must not allow yourselves to be dispossessed as you fathers were dispossessed" .....crickey, Parnell may have been speaking in the 1880s but his words are very relevent today. The new absentee landlords are the European Central Bank and the IMF, and their sheriffs and land agents are the Irish Establishment and the bankers. Come back Parnell, we need you!!

[tommykillian]

does anyone know where i can find copies of Parnell's speeches?

[39Auldkellier]

he's spot on it has nothing to do with relgion contrary to the common belief, lower order british prods such as quakers, methodists and Presbyterians probably hated landed anglicans as much as the do irish catholics, its propagandists that only say otherwise, most of the global rc institutions founded in ireland such as our lady's charity and christian brothers ironically were all actually founded by anglican defectors..