L1250583 - Parnell Statue - Rathdrum - County Wicklow
The statue to Charles Stewart Parnell MP in Parnell Park, Rathdrum, County Wicklow.
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The statue is set on a block-like granite plinth with scabbled finish and 'Parnell' inscribed on the front (south) face.
The statue was created by Fred Conlen and is set within a small paved area overlooking Parnell Park, Rathdrum located near Parnell’s home of Avondale House.
A small plaque set into the retaining wall behind the monument states that it was unveiled by President Mary Robinson in September 1991.
Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 – 6 October 1891) was an Irish nationalist politician who served as Leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1882 to 1891 and Leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882.
He served as an member of parliament from 1875 to 1891. His party held the balance of power in the House of Commons during the Home Rule debates of 1885–1890.
Born into a powerful Anglo-Irish Protestant landowning family, he was a land reform agitator, founder in 1879 of the Irish National Land League.
He became leader of the Home Rule League, operating independently of the Liberal Party, winning great influence by his balancing of constitutional, radical, and economic issues, and by his skilful use of parliamentary procedure. He was imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, in 1882, but he was released when he renounced violent extra-Parliamentary action. The same year, he reformed the Home Rule League as the Irish Parliamentary Party, which he controlled minutely as Britain's first disciplined democratic party.
The hung parliament of 1885 saw him hold the balance of power between William Gladstone's Liberal Party and Lord Salisbury's Conservative Party. His power was one factor in Gladstone's adoption of Home Rule as the central tenet of the Liberal Party.
The Irish Parliamentary Party split in 1890, following the revelation of Parnell's long adulterous love affair, which led to many British Liberals (a number of them Nonconformists) refusing to work with him, and engendered strong opposition to him from Catholic bishops. He headed a small minority faction until his death in 1891.
Parnell is celebrated as the best organiser of a political party up to that time, and one of the most formidable figures in parliamentary history. Many believe that Irish Home Rule could have been achieved without conflict, if he had not been brought down by personal circumstances.
L1250583 - Parnell Statue - Rathdrum - County Wicklow
The statue to Charles Stewart Parnell MP in Parnell Park, Rathdrum, County Wicklow.
For more Military, War and Political Monuments in Ireland please click here: www.jhluxton.com/Ireland/Military-and-Political-Memorials...
The statue is set on a block-like granite plinth with scabbled finish and 'Parnell' inscribed on the front (south) face.
The statue was created by Fred Conlen and is set within a small paved area overlooking Parnell Park, Rathdrum located near Parnell’s home of Avondale House.
A small plaque set into the retaining wall behind the monument states that it was unveiled by President Mary Robinson in September 1991.
Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 – 6 October 1891) was an Irish nationalist politician who served as Leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1882 to 1891 and Leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882.
He served as an member of parliament from 1875 to 1891. His party held the balance of power in the House of Commons during the Home Rule debates of 1885–1890.
Born into a powerful Anglo-Irish Protestant landowning family, he was a land reform agitator, founder in 1879 of the Irish National Land League.
He became leader of the Home Rule League, operating independently of the Liberal Party, winning great influence by his balancing of constitutional, radical, and economic issues, and by his skilful use of parliamentary procedure. He was imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, in 1882, but he was released when he renounced violent extra-Parliamentary action. The same year, he reformed the Home Rule League as the Irish Parliamentary Party, which he controlled minutely as Britain's first disciplined democratic party.
The hung parliament of 1885 saw him hold the balance of power between William Gladstone's Liberal Party and Lord Salisbury's Conservative Party. His power was one factor in Gladstone's adoption of Home Rule as the central tenet of the Liberal Party.
The Irish Parliamentary Party split in 1890, following the revelation of Parnell's long adulterous love affair, which led to many British Liberals (a number of them Nonconformists) refusing to work with him, and engendered strong opposition to him from Catholic bishops. He headed a small minority faction until his death in 1891.
Parnell is celebrated as the best organiser of a political party up to that time, and one of the most formidable figures in parliamentary history. Many believe that Irish Home Rule could have been achieved without conflict, if he had not been brought down by personal circumstances.