Charles Stewart Parnell Biography

Birth of Charles Stewart Parnell

Charles Stewart Parnell is first elected to the House of Commons (the lower level of British legislature), as a Home Rule League Member of Parliament for Meath

Charles Stewart Parnell is first elected to the House of Commons (the lower level of British legislature), as a Home Rule League Member of Parliament for Meath

Appointed President of the Home Rule Confederation

Appointed President of the Home Rule Confederation

Elected president of Davitts newly founded Irish National Land League, signing a militant Land League address campaigning for land reform

Charles Stewart Parnell leaves for America with John Dillon to raise funds for famine relief and secure support for Home Rule

Parnell outlines his "boycotting" strategy in his Ennis speech

Charles Stewart replaces William Shaw as chairman of the Home Rule League

Charles Stewart replaces William Shaw as chairman of the Home Rule League

Sits for the constituency of Cork City from 1880 until 1891

Speaks in sixty-two cities in the USA & Canada, where he was so well received in Toronto, that Healy dubbs him "the uncrowned king of Ireland"

Speaks in sixty-two cities in the USA & Canada, where he was so well received in Toronto, that Healy dubbs him "the uncrowned king of Ireland". Has an audience with the American President & addresses the House of Representatives on the state of Ireland

Campaigns for Irish tenants not to pay rent, retaliation for outlawing the Land League

Campaigns for tennants not to pay rent in retaliation for outlawing the Land League

Campaigns for tennants not to pay rent in retaliation for outlawing the Land League

Convicted on charge of obstructing the operation of the new land act. Campaigns for Irish tenants not to pay rent, retaliation for outlawing the Land League

Arrested for treasonable practices and sent to Kilmainham Gaol; issued No Rent Manifesto

Arrested for treasonable practices and sent to Kilmainham Gaol; issued No Rent Manifesto

In 1882, as part of a wholescale move from being an informal alliance to a cohesive unified, whipped political movement Parnell renames the Home Rule League the Irish Parliamentary Party to pursue Irish Home Rule

In 1882, as part of a wholescale move from being an informal alliance to a cohesive unified, whipped political movement Parnell renames the Home Rule League the Irish Parliamentary Party to pursue Irish Home Rule

In 1882, as part of a wholescale move from being an informal alliance to a cohesive unified, whipped political movement Parnell renames the Home Rule League the Irish Parliamentary Party to pursue Irish Home Rule

In 1882, as part of a wholescale move from being an informal alliance to a cohesive unified, whipped political movement Parnell renames the Home Rule League the Irish Parliamentary Party to pursue Irish Home Rule

In 1882, as part of a wholescale move from being an informal alliance to a cohesive unified, whipped political movement Parnell renames the Home Rule League the Irish Parliamentary Party to pursue Irish Home Rule

In 1882, as part of a wholescale move from being an informal alliance to a cohesive unified, whipped political movement Parnell renames the Home Rule League the Irish Parliamentary Party to pursue Irish Home Rule

In 1882, as part of a wholescale move from being an informal alliance to a cohesive unified, whipped political movement Parnell renames the Home Rule League the Irish Parliamentary Party to pursue Irish Home Rule

Kilmainham Treaty between Parnell & the Government, Parnell is released

Parnell seeks to use his experience and huge support to advance his pursuit of Home Rule and resurrect the suppressed Land League as the Irish National League (INL). Combines moderate agrarianism, a Home Rule programme with electoral functions, is hierarchical and autocratic in structure with Parnell wielding immense authority and direct Parliamentary control

Combines moderate agrarianism, a Home Rule programme with electoral functions, is hierarchical and autocratic in structure with Parnell wielding immense authority and direct Parliamentary control

Parnell leaves the day-to-day running of the INL in the hands of his lieutenants Timothy Harrington as Secretary, William OBrien editor of its newspaper United Ireland and Timothy Healy.

Parnell seeks to use his experience and huge support to advance his pursuit of Home Rule and resurrect the suppressed Land League as the Irish National League (INL).

The informal alliance between the new, tightly disciplined INL and the Catholic Church is one of the main factors for the revitalisation of the national Home Rule.

Parnell seeks to use his experience and huge support to advance his pursuit of Home Rule and resurrect the suppressed Land League as the Irish National League (INL)

Advises English constituencies to vote Conservative

Advises English constituencies to vote Conservative

Parliament was dissolved and elections called, Irish Home Rule the central issue, the result of the July 1886 general election was again Liberal defeat, the Conservative anti-Home-Rulers and the Liberal Unionist Party return with a majority of 118. The Liberals regain power, their leader Gladstone now under Parnells sway moving towards Home Rule, which Gladstones son revealed publicly under what became known as the "flying of the Hawarden Kite"

The Liberals regain power, their leader Gladstone now under Parnells sway moving towards Home Rule, which Gladstones son revealed publicly under what became known as the "flying of the Hawarden Kite"

The Liberals regain power, their leader Gladstone now under Parnells sway moving towards Home Rule, which Gladstones son revealed publicly under what became known as the "flying of the Hawarden Kite"

Gladstone introduces the First Irish Home Rule Bill, his object to establish an Irish legislature

Gladstone introduces the First Irish Home Rule Bill, his object to establish an Irish legislature

Gladstone introduces the First Irish Home Rule Bill, his object to establish an Irish legislature

Gladstone introduces the First Irish Home Rule Bill, his object to establish an Irish legislature

Gladstone introduces the First Irish Home Rule Bill, his object to establish an Irish legislature

Gladstone introduces the First Irish Home Rule Bill, his object to establish an Irish legislature

Unionist anti-home rule protest demonstrations resulted in a split between pro- and anti-home rulers within the Liberal Party and the defeat of the bill on its second reading in June by 341 to 311 votes

Unionist anti-home rule protest demonstrations resulted in a split between pro- and anti-home rulers within the Liberal Party and the defeat of the bill on its second reading in June by 341 to 311 votes

Parliament was dissolved and elections called, Irish Home Rule the central issue, the result of the July 1886 general election was again Liberal defeat, the Conservative anti-Home-Rulers and the Liberal Unionist Party return with a majority of 118

Parliament was dissolved and elections called, Irish Home Rule the central issue, the result of the July 1886 general election was again Liberal defeat, the Conservative anti-Home-Rulers and the Liberal Unionist Party return with a majority of 118

Parliament was dissolved and elections called, Irish Home Rule the central issue, the result of the July 1886 general election was again Liberal defeat, the Conservative anti-Home-Rulers and the Liberal Unionist Party return with a majority of 118

Parliament was dissolved and elections called, Irish Home Rule the central issue, the result of the July 1886 general election was again Liberal defeat, the Conservative anti-Home-Rulers and the Liberal Unionist Party return with a majority of 118

Parnell says the Times letter linking him to the Phoenix Park murders is a forgery. Accused by the British newspaper The Times of support for the brutal murders in May 1882 of the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Lord Cavendish and the Under Secretary Burke in Dublins Phoenix Park

A commission investigates Parnells involvement in the Phoenix Park murders

The letter in the Times condeming Parnell is judged to be a forgery by Richard Pigott. Cleared of the Phoenix Park murders

Ruined by the OShea divorce case

Death of Charles Stewart Parnell

The Parnellites pass a resolution of confidence in Parnell

Issues a manifesto to the Irish in America requesting funds

Burial of Charles Stewart Parnell