Irish Independent
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The Irish Independent is an Irish daily newspaper and online publication which is owned by Mediahuis Ireland, a subsidiary of Mediahuis.
Irish Independent front page on 24 November 2005
Independent Newspapers in January 1935
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
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…become compact only. The Irish Independent was formed in 1905 as the direct successor to The Irish Daily Independent and Daily Nation, an 1890s' pro-Parnellite newspaper. It was launched by William Martin Murphy, a controversial Irish nationalist businessman, staunch anti-Parnellite and fellow townsman of…
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