Standard Life of Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) — the political backdrop to the Murphys' emigration decade

Summary

Standard biography of **Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891)**, the Irish Parliamentary Party leader of the Home Rule and Land War years that frame the Murphys' Beara emigration. Parnell's arc (1879 INLL → 1881 Land Act → 1881 Kilmainham → 1886 First Home Rule Bill → 1890 O'Shea divorce → 1891 death) is the political weather of the family's departure decade; this book is the canonical secondary source for it. Pair with the existing Land League / Reynolds-Castletown cluster of clippings (1881-12-09 Bismarck Tribune; 1881-12-10 / 1881-12-24 Times-London; 1882-01-13 Stockton), and with the 1885 "Ireland passing out of ministers' hands" Jamestown editorial just transcribed in this batch.

Also mentioned

• Charles Stewart Parnell

  Subject of the biography. Not family.

Places

• Ireland (primary)
• London (secondary)

Themes

• irish_nationalism
• home_rule
• parnell
• land_war
• land_league

Story threads

• The Reynolds case in the Land League press
• Famine to emigration

Tags

• context_setting
• book_chapter_material

Related sources

• 1881-12-09 — Bismarck Tribune, p.2 — Outrageous.
• 1881-12-10 — The Times, p.6
• 1885-10-22 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.6

Open questions

• Confirm author/edition. The IA "cu31924028167587" identifier points to a Cornell digitisation; the standard candidate is R. Barry O'Brien's 1898 2-vol *Life of Charles Stewart Parnell*, but the single-PDF format could be a different edition (e.g., Robert Kee, F. S. L. Lyons, or a one-vol reissue). Verify on the IA item page when convenient.