Charles Stewart Parnell
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Charles Stewart Parnell was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882, and then of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1882 to 1891, holding the b
Parnell, 1870–1880
M. Parnell, ca. 1880–1891; from the Cabinet Card Collection of the Boston Public Library
Punch magazine depicts the Fenian movement as Frankenstein's monster to Charles Parnell's Frankenstein, in the wake of the Phoenix Park killings
Another hostile Punch cartoon, from 1885, depicting the Irish National League as the "Irish Vampire", with Parnell's head
Katharine O'Shea
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Katharine Parnell, known before her second marriage as Katharine O'Shea and popularly as Kitty O'Shea, was an English woman from a political family whose adulterous relationship with Irish nationalist
Charles Stewart Parnell
…of 1882, were shown to have been forged by Richard Pigott. In 1890, he was a co-respondent in divorce proceedings due to his long relationship with Katherine O'Shea. This led many British Liberals, many of whom were Nonconformists, to refuse to work with him; it also caused a split in the Irish Parliamentary Party…
Kitty O Shea
Rivenhall Place, 1831 engraving
O'Shea in 1914