Parnell's movement campaigned for ' Home Rule ', by which they meant that Ireland would govern itself as a region within the United Kingdom, in contrast to O ' Connell who wanted complete independence subject to a shared monarch and Crown.

During Parnell's highly successful tour, he had an audience with American President Rutherford B. Hayes, on 2 February 1880 he addressed the House of Representatives on the state of Ireland and spoke in 62 cities including in Canada, where he was so well received in Toronto that Healy dubbed him " the uncrowned king of Ireland ".

Parnell's own newspaper, the United Ireland, attacked the Land Act and he was arrested on 13 October 1881 together with his party lieutenants, William O ' Brien, John Dillon, Michael Davitt and Willie Redmond, who had also conducted a bitter verbal offensive.

The Catholic Church hierarchy in Ireland was largely silent, some bishops explicitly declaring the issue to be purely political, though divorce is forbidden under Catholic doctrine and most of Parnell's supporters were members of the Catholic Church.

" Some significance can be given to Parnell's penultimate words when lying on his deathbed, he invoked not Mother Ireland, but rather ' the Conservative party '.

Parnell's movement also campaigned for the right of Ireland to govern herself as a region within the United Kingdom, in contrast to O ' Connell who had wanted a complete repeal of the Act of Union.

In 1889, the scandal surrounding Parnell's divorce proceedings split the Irish party, when it became public that Parnell, popularly acclaimed as the ' Uncrowned King of Ireland ', had for many years been living in a family relationship with Mrs. Katharine O ' Shea, the long separated wife of a fellow MP.

The 1880 general election in Ireland marked the beginning both of the dominance of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Irish politics and of Charles Stewart Parnell's dominance within the Party.

In 1958 an appearance with the comedian Dickie Henderson led to his being offered the job of compère of Val Parnell's weekly TV variety show, Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

Fields regularly performed in TV appearances, being the first entertainer to perform on Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

This led to Parnell's being deserted by a majority of his own Irish Parliamentary Party and to his downfall as its leader in December 1890 following Katharine's November divorce proceedings from Captain O ' Shea, in which Parnell was named as co-respondent.

Parnell's enemies, in order to damage him personally, called her " Kitty O ' Shea " because at that time " kitty ", as well as being an Hiberno-English version of Catherine / Katherine / Katharine, was also a slang term for a prostitute.

The scale of Parnell's impact can be seen in the fact that parties from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have tried to claim him as " one of their own ".

Its origins are traced back to the eight-hour working day movement that arose in the newly founded Wellington colony in 1840, primarily because of carpenter Samuel Parnell's refusal to work more than eight hours a day.

Some of the more notable are Parnell's Station, Ken's Mini Mart, Spiller's Service Station, Morrison's Building Supply, Choudrant Appliance, and Doody's Diner.

Parnell's grandfather William Parnell ( 1780 – 1821 ), who inherited the Avondale Estate in 1795, was a liberal Irish MP for Wicklow from 1817 – 1820.

Parnell's leadership was first put to the test in February 1886 when he forced the candidature of Captain William O ' Shea, who had negotiated the Kilmainham Treaty, for a Galway seat by-election.

Andrew Kettle, Parnell's right hand man, who shared a lot of his opinions, wrote of his own views, " I confess that I felt 1885, and still feel, a greater leaning towards the British Tory party than I ever could have towards the so-called Liberals.

Henry Harrison, who had acted as Parnell's bodyguard and aide-de-camp, devoted himself after Parnell's death to the service of his widow Katharine.

In the same race GP1, upgraded by the works with Murray Jamieson-designed Roots-type supercharging and driven by Reg Parnell's mechanic Wilkie Wilkinson ( who had supervised modification of the E-Types ), retired with a broken connecting rod.

* Daniel, a student from Jimmy Fallon's " Jarrett's Room " sketch who lived in the dorm next to Jarret and Gobi and always falls for their bogus tricks to get girls ( because of Parnell's short-lived termination, Parnell's Daniel was replaced by Jeff Richards's character, Jeff, a jock whose gross habits are always caught on Jarret's webcam )

Furthermore, Chris Parnell's costume ( for portraying Bloom ) closely resembled Roeser's actual appearance at the relevant time, as did the costume worn by Chris Kattan, who was intended to portray Roeser in the skit.

Gainey ), another ex-con Jimmie befriended on the inside, assists Rainwood in his cause, along with Jimmie's wife Kate ( Laila Robins ), who learns of Scalise and Parnell's involvement in the cover-up when they begin to harass her.

In 1952 Scott joined Jack Parnell's orchestra, then led his own nine-piece group and quintet featuring among others, Pete King, with whom he would later open his jazz club, Victor Feldman, Hank Shaw and Phil Seamen from 1953 to 1956.

Although Parnell and some other Home Rulers, such as Isaac Butt, were Protestants, Parnell's party was overwhelmingly Catholic.

Parnell's movement proved to be a broad church, from conservative landowners to the Land League which was campaigning for fundamental reform of Irish landholding, where most farms were held on rental from large aristocratic estates.

At that time he appeared to be trying to create a separate Welsh national party modelled on Parnell's Irish Parliamentary Party and worked towards a union of the North and South Wales Liberal Federations.

In 1957 he wrote and appeared in an edition of Val Parnell's Saturday Spectacular, the first of two shows in this series that he wrote for Peter Sellers.

The 1885 General Election had left Charles Stewart Parnell's Irish Nationalists holding the balance of power, and had convinced Gladstone that the Irish wanted and deserved Home Rule.

His political career began in the 1880s under Charles Stewart Parnell's leadership of the Irish Parliamentary Party ( IPP ), and continued into the 1920s, when he was the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State.

Parnell admired Healy's intelligence and energy after Healy had established himself as part of Parnell's broader political circle.

He became Parnell's secretary, but was denied contact to Parnell's small inner circle of political colleagues.

Initially a passionate supporter of Parnell, he became disenchanted with his leader after the first clash occurred in 1886 when Healy opposed Parnell's party nomination of Captain William O ’ Shea to stand for Galway City.

Following Parnell's death in 1891, the IPP's anti-Parnellite majority group broke away forming the Irish National Federation ( INF ) under John Dillon.

The Irish Parliamentary Party split during 1890, following revelations of Parnell's private life intruding on his political career.

Admiral Stewart's mother, Parnell's great-grandmother, belonged to the Tudor family so had a distant relationship with the British Royal Family.

Parnell's parents separated when he was six, and as a boy he was sent to different schools in England, where he spent an unhappy youth.

A central aspect of Parnell's reforms was a new selection procedure to ensure the professional selection of party candidates committed to taking their seats.

Parnell's party emerged swiftly as a tightly disciplined and, on the whole, energetic body of parliamentarians.

Parnell's task was now to win acceptance of the principle of a Dublin parliament.

The Conservatives and the Liberal Unionist Party returned with a majority of 118 over the combined Gladstonian Liberals and Parnell's 85 Irish Party seats.

The 35-volume commission report published in February 1890, did not however clear Parnell's movement of criminal involvement.