Charles Stewart Parnell

DS grew up in a highly-educated, intellectual, Irish-Catholic family. Both her parents were writers, as was her sister. Her childhood home was a centre of intellectual activity in Dublin, and prominent Irish literary...

Her school attendance took place abroad. For a year, 1855-1856, she and her sister Zoe both attended a school in Cologne, and in 1858 she joined a Paris finishing school, where her fellow-pupils included...

His relatives included John Page Wood , husband of novelist Emma Caroline Wood . This pair were the parents of Anna Steele (another novelist), Katharine O'Shea (mistress and later the wife of Charles Stuart Parnell

AS 's youngest sister, by marriage Katherine or Katharine O'Shea , became notorious because of her involvement with Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell . The sisters were said to have shared a disregard for conventions...

ECW 's youngest daughter, Katherine, later known as Kitty O'Shea , became mistress and then wife of Charles Parnell . Her divorce case from William Henry O'Shea famously cost Parnell his position as chairman of...

KT 's father, Andrew Cullen Tynan , came from a long line of Irish farmers from Cheeverstown in Dublin and from County Wicklow. He was born from a mixed marriage: his mother was Catholic...

Paul Madden , KCT 's father, was director and chairman of the Ulster and Leinster Bank as well as an Alderman of the City of Cork. An associate of politician Charles Stewart Parnell (and...

During her period at Newbridge after her return from school, FPC became good friends with her nearest neighbour, Sophia Parnell , great-aunt of Charles Stewart Parnell .

Through her youngest sister AS met many key figures of the day, including Irish Home-Rule leader Charles Stewart Parnell (Katherine O'Shea's long-term lover and eventual husband), and Justin McCarthy , novelist and Irish Home-Rule MP...

In LondonKT met the politician William Gladstone (a supporter of Home Rule for Ireland) at a party given for Charles Parnell . On another occasion, she attended a garden-party given by feminist novelist...

The Deliverer uses the Biblical story of the rejection of Moses by the ancient Israelites as an analogue for Parnell 's rejection by the Irish.

KT found that her staunch support for Parnell after the divorce case was now punished with some damaging criticism of this biography. The review in the anti-Parnellite National Press presented abuse of me...

HT made a fighting speech (following the government's suppression of the Irish Land League and imprisonment of Charles Stewart Parnell ) on the iniquities which were now disgracing England in Ireland (which, she pointed out...

She was furious at being identified, as she intensely disliked publicity. In an angry letter to George Grove , editor of the magazine, she wrote: I thought I had clearly made it understood to the...

One of her activities as a member of the League was to visit Irish political prisoners at Kilmainham Jail (now in Dublin). She went to see Irish nationalist Charles Parnell on one such visit...