by Paul Bew
John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer, who took charge in Dublin Castle after the Phoenix Park murders, was a key supporter of Gladstone’s Home Rule policy. (© Getty Images)
Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon: a Tory with Home Rule sympathies. (© Getty Images)
Circa 1885. (© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis)
Parnell in his normal place in Irish Party ranks. (Courtesy of The National Library of Ireland)
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury: the decisive opponent of Home Rule. (© Corbis)
G. J. Goschen, senior Liberal; he became a Liberal Unionist and one of the harshest critics of Home Rule. (© Mary Evans Picture Library)
John Dillon, leader of the Plan of Campaign. (© Getty Images)
The symbolism here—where the Union Jack is linked with Hibernian imagery—is in stark contrast to the more radical republican tone of the second image of this selection of photos (caption starting ‘This portrait catches the tone …’). (BELUM.v1346 © National Museums Northern Ireland, Collection Ulster Museum)
John Redmond, a loyal supporter of Parnell to the end; he led the Parnellite minority grouping of MPs in the 1890s. (© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis)
Timothy Healy, Parnell’s most bitter opponent at the time of the split. (© Getty Images)
William Ewart Gladstone: the first Prime Minister to support Home Rule for Ireland. (© Getty Images)
The headstone of Charles Stewart Parnell, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. (© Photolibrary)
The bust, by Yann Renard-Goulet, placed in the House of Commons (which also has a bust of John Redmond). Its installation follows a long campaign by John Hume. (Courtesy of The Palace of Westminster Collection)
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About the Author
Paul Bew is Professor of Irish Politics at Queen’s University, Belfast. He is a former Parnell Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is currently a crossbench peer at Westminster and a member of the British-Irish Inter-parliamentary Assembly, as well as being Secretary to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on History and Archives. His most recent book is Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789–2006.
Dedication
To Greta
Acknowledgments
My interest in this subject was first provoked by Edward Norman’s special subject lectures ‘The Home Rule Debate’ in Cambridge in 1970–71. It is a tribute to the stimulating nature of this course that forty years later I still find the themes to be of such interest. In the early 1970s I first met Roy Foster, who was working on his first book, a brilliant contextual study of Parnell. He helped to sustain my interest in the most fascinating Irish politician of the nineteenth century. In more recent years Patrick Maume has kept up a flow of interesting and suggestive publications on this era and I have benefited enormously from numerous conversations with him. He has always been both generous and wise in his advice. I am additionally indebted to him for allowing me to include his stimulating counterfactual essay on Parnell as an appendix to the present book. I also owe a debt of gratitude to Peter Rowan, the Belfast antiquarian. I am particularly grateful to Richard Donaldson and Gordon Loughridge for their professionalism. Finally, it has been a great pleasure to work again with Colm Croker on the final manuscript.
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