Parnell's Other Island

Charles Stewart Parnell, the great Irish nationalist leader of the late 19th century, was essentially a product of both the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. An upper class, English-accented landowner who led the constitutional fight for Irish freedom, Parnell was as familiar with the busy streets of London, the quiet lanes of rural Kent, and the fashionable seafront at Brighton on England's south coast, as he was with the hills of his native Wicklow. This book, published in the year of the