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Katharine O'Shea. Charles Stewart Parnell
Charles Stewart Parnell
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. MY EARLY LIFE
CHAPTER II. VISITORS AT RIVENHALL
CHAPTER III. MY FATHER'S DEATH AND MY MARRIAGE
CHAPTER IV. A DAY ON THE DOWNS
CHAPTER V. MORE FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES
CHAPTER VI. CAPTAIN O'SHEA ENTERS POLITICAL LIFE
CHAPTER VII. MR. PARNELL AND THE IRISH PARTY
CHAPTER VIII. THE FIRST MEETING WITH MR. PARNELL
CHAPTER IX. AT ELTHAM
CHAPTER X. THE LAND LEAGUE TRIALS
CHAPTER XI. PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATIONS
CHAPTER XII. HOBBIES AND A CHALLENGE
CHAPTER XIII. ASTRONOMY, "SEDITION," AND ARREST
CHAPTER XIV. KILMAINHAM DAYS
CHAPTER XV. MORE KILMAINHAM LETTERS
CHAPTER XVI. THE "KILMAINHAM TREATY"
CHAPTER XVII. THE PHOENIX PARK MURDERS AND AFTER
CHAPTER XVIII. ENVOY TO GLADSTONE
CHAPTER XIX. THE FIRST HOME RULE BILL
CHAPTER XX. MR. PARNELL IN DANGER—FOUNDING OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE
CHAPTER XXI. A WINTER OF MEMORIES
CHAPTER XXII. HORSES AND DOGS
CHAPTER XXIII. SEASIDE HOLIDAYS
CHAPTER XXIV. LONDON REMEMBRANCES
CHAPTER XXV. THE PARNELL COMMISSION
CHAPTER XXVI. BRIGHTON HAUNTS
CHAPTER XXVII. THE DIVORCE CASE [1]
CHAPTER XXVIII. A KING AT BAY
CHAPTER XXIX. PARNELL AS I KNEW HIM
CHAPTER XXX. MARRIAGE, ILLNESS AND DEATH
INDEX
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Katharine O'Shea
His Love Story and Political Life
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Willie and I were a good-looking young couple, and people liked to have us about. Willie, too, was a good conversationalist, and had a ready wit that made him welcome, since an Irishman and wit are synonymous to the conventional mind. That his witticisms pertained rather to the France of his education than the Ireland of his birth was unrecognized because unexpected.
I was—rather, I fear, to Willie's annoyance—labelled "delightfully unusual" soon after our going to Bennington, the cause being that I received my guests one evening with my then abundant hair hanging loosely to below my waist, twisted through with a wide blue ribbon. To Willie's scandalized glance I replied with a hasty whisper, "The very latest from Paris," and was rewarded with the mollified though puzzled expression very properly awarded by all men to the "latest fashion" of their womenkind.
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