Charles Stewart Parnell

Charles Stewart Parnell (June 27 1846 – October 6 1891) was an Irish political leader and one of the most important figures in 19th century Ireland and the United Kingdom; William Ewart Gladstone thought him the most remarkable person he had ever met. A future Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith, described him as one of the three or four greatest men of the nineteenth century, while Lord Haldane described him as the strongest man the British House of Commons had seen in 150 years.

Additional reading and sources

• Robert Kee, The Green Flag (Penguin, 1972–2000), ISBN 0140291652
• Robert Kee, The Laurel and the Ivy (Penguin, 1994), ISBN 0140239626