{"product_id":"9780717163960","title":"Charles Stewart Parnell, A Biography: The Definitive Biography of the Uncrowned King of Ireland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this masterly biography, F.S.L. Lyons tackles the life and times of one of the greatest Irish statesmen of modern times. One of modern Irish biography’s great triumphs, \u003ci\u003eCharles Stewart Parnell\u003c\/i\u003e has never been approached or surpassed.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles Stewart Parnell, an enigmatic, icy aristocrat, was the unlikely and unchallenged leader of Irish nationalism from the mid-1870s, in its early heroic phase. Without him, Home Rule would not have become the formidable cause that it was.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel O’Connell first articulated modern Irish nationalism; Parnell first organised it. As leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1875 until his death in 1891, Parnell became a figurehead for Irish nationalist ambition and used his influence to further the cause of Irish independence in the British parliament. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParnell not only mobilised nationalist Ireland, exploiting discontent with the land system and a desire for political autonomy, he also subverted the usages of nineteenth-century British politics by supporting the introduction of the filibuster into the House of Commons. He divided Gladstone’s Liberal party between those who supported Home Rule and those who opposed it and generally forced the Irish question to the heart of British politics where it remained until 1922. Even today, the continuing uncertainty over the future of Northern Ireland is a remote legacy of Parnell. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParnell’s fall – the product of his doomed and passionate love affair with Katharine O’Shea – was the most traumatic moment in nationalist history before 1916. It divided a generation. The passions it gave rise to, brilliantly recalled in the Christmas dinner scene of James Joyce’s \u003ci\u003eA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man\u003c\/i\u003e, are fully explored in this magnificent work of scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Stewart Parnell\u003c\/i\u003e: Table of Contents\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Meeting of the Waters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApprenticeship\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRising High\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrisis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the Eye of the Storm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKilmainham\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe New Course\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGathering Pace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTowards the Fulcrum\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Galway ‘Mutiny’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe View from Pisgah\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the Shadows\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIreland in the Strand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApotheosis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Crash\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConfrontation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBreaking-Point\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Time of Rending\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLast Chance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLa Commedia è Finita\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMyth and Reality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Gill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125448622320,"sku":"9780717163960","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780717163960_p0.jpg?v=1763622005","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780717163960","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}