Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III THE PARNELL CRISIS 1890--1893 JT was, politically speaking, the second Parnell crisis that made John Redmond. True, Parnell's whole life might be called one long crisis, and the Irish Leader looked on more as an institution than a personality, but at the same time he was the Nationalist movement personified. No sooner had the Phoenix Park tragedy been dissociated from his name (after having done more to wreck his cause than all the Unionist arguments could ever have accomplished) than Home Rule once more came to the front. But the political equilibrium had hardly been thus restored when it was once more disturbed and the whole of the Irish race, at home and abroad, were swept with a storm of dissension. It has been generally supposed that this was due to the divorce suit. It was nothing of the kind: it was due entirely to the action of the Irish Party in Committee Room 15. That the result of the divorce proceedings had affected the English mind no one for a moment can doubt, and that the proverbially illogical electorate would in consequence withdraw its support from Home Rule, at least temporarily, was equally certain. But in spite of all this the Irish members were at first determined to stick to Parnell. On the day following the announcement of the verdict, a meeting of some forty members was held in Dublin, with John Redmond in the chair, to pass a vote of confidence in the leader; and this resolution was endorsed by a large public meeting some time later in the Leinster Hall. Ireland was shocked, but not demoralized. It was the Nonconformist agitation led by the Rev. Hugh Price - Hughes, together with Gladstone's letter practically ordering the deposition of the leader, that brought the crisis to a climax; for the...
