Charles Stuart Parnell
Parnell - Connection with Fenians
Parliamentary Obstruction
Just kept talking during the meetings in parliament
Parnell speaks in Parliament
Supported by the Fenians
He does not believe any murder was committed in Manchester
Home Rule Movement
Parnell Took over
First leader was Isaac Butt
Not very successful
Set up in 1870
The Land League
1881 Land Act
William Gladstone , PM, puts parnell in Killmainghan Jail
Parnell goes around to the people telling them to test this act
Provides fair rents and a land court to decide the rents
Boycott
Socially Ignored
Wouldn't talk or serve the man or his family
People isolated anyone who took the land on which someone was evicted
Wanted the 3 F's
Free Sale
If their land was sold, they would get compensation
Fixity of Tenure
As long as you paid the rent, you could not be evicted
Fair Rent
Parnell is not a founder but becomes the President
Michael Davitt
John Devoy
Leader of IRB in America
Main topic
Manchester Martyrs 1867
Parnell becomes member of the Home Rule Party
Policeman accidently killed
Two Irish fenians arrested for acting suspiciously
Parnell's Early Life
Elected to House of Commons in 1875
Studied at Cambridge University
Parnell was a Protestant Landlord
Owned 5000 Acres
Anglo - Irish landowners
Born 27th June ,1846 in Avondale, Co. Wicklow
Politics in Britain
British Parliament
House of Lords
House of Commons
2 Main Parties
Liberals
For Home Rule
Conservatives
Therefore not allowing the bill to be passed
House of lords were mostly Protestant Bishops etc
Leader was Andrew Bonar Law
Against Home Rule
Fenian Movement
Believe in using physical force
Unsuccessful rebellion in South Kerry in 1867
Hundreds arrested including Tom Clarke
Also called the IRB
Founders
John O' Mahoney
James Stephens
