After leaving for London in 1878 Healy worked as a confidential clerk in a factory owned by his relative, then worked as a parliamentary correspondent for The Nation newspaper owned by his uncle, writing numerous articles in support of Parnell, the newly emergent and more militant home rule leader, and his policy of parliamentary obstructionism.

Parnell next became the centre of public attention when in March and April 1887 he found himself accused by the British newspaper The Times of supporting the brutal murders in May 1882 of the newly appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, Lord Frederick Cavendish and the Permanent Under-Secretary, Thomas Henry Burke in Dublin's Phoenix Park, and of the general involvement of his movement with crime ( i. e., with illegal organisations such as the IRB ).

Parnell then took The Times to court and the newspaper paid him £ 5, 000 damages in an out-of-court settlement.

In March 1887, The Times printed letters purportedly from Parnell claiming sympathy with the murderers and that his public denunciation of them was insincere.

Atkinson represented the Times Newspaper before the Parnell Commission in 1888.

* Michael Davitt, The " Times "- Parnell Commission: Speech delivered by Michael Davitt in defence of the Land League ( 1890 )

He was one of the leading counsel for The Times before the Parnell Commission, and from 1892 to 1895 was Attorney General to the Prince of Wales.

* 7 March – 18 April-The Times publishes a series of articles on " Parnellism and Crime " quoting letters implicating Charles Stewart Parnell of involvement in illegal activities, in particular, support for the 1882 Phoenix Park Murders.

In 1890 he was leading counsel for The Times in the Parnell inquiry ; in 1893 he represented Great Britain in the Bering Sea arbitration ; in 1898 he discharged the same function in the matter of the boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela.

Nevertheless, The Times lost the case, Beach's career, for good or evil, was at an end, and Parnell, who had always insisted that he was opposed to violence, was completely exonerated.

A legend developed that England would not fall to a foreign invader so long as there were ravens at the Tower of London ; although this is often thought to be an ancient belief, the official Tower of London historian, Geoff Parnell, believes that this is actually a romantic Victorian invention.

The song goes on to describe the neighbour's previous gloating at the defeats of Irish nationalism, " when you thought us well and truly persecuted ", for instance, when they " slandered great Parnell "-the Behans in fact lived very close to the Mountjoy Square home of Robert Anderson who was partly responsible for the Piggott forgeries ( see Charles Stewart Parnell # Pigott forgeries ).

He competed in the 1951 24 Hours of Le Mans race in a works Aston Martin DB2 where, along with his friend, Reg Parnell, he finished third in class and seventh overall.

This act led to his engagement by Val Parnell to appear in the Starlight Roof revues starring Vic Oliver, where he met and married his second wife Clementina, with whom he had four children.

After Butt's death the Home Rule Movement, or the Irish Parliamentary Party as it had become known, was turned into a major political force under the guidance of William Shaw and in particular a radical young Protestant landowner, Charles Stewart Parnell.

Though less than expected by the Sinn Féin leadership, it was substantially more than the initial form of home rule within the United Kingdom sought by Charles Stewart Parnell from 1880, and a serious advancement on the Home Rule Act of 1914 that the Irish nationalist leader John Redmond had achieved through parliamentary proceedings.

When the war was over these bodies stayed intact and had premises at Parnell Square.

Chamberlain discovered the existence of such negotiations from Henry Labouchere, but unsure of the precise nature of Gladstone's offer to Parnell, did not press the issue, although he had already stated his opposition to Home Rule, declaring that " I cannot admit that five millions of Irishmen have any greater right to govern themselves without regard to the rest of the United Kingdom than the five million inhabitants of the metropolis ( i. e. London ).

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

Following the ensuing O ' Shea divorce controversy which revealed that the party leader had had a lengthy family relationship with the wife of a fellow MP, whom he later married and was the father of three of her children, Healy felt unable to again give way to Parnell.

His hostility had in one respect a rational basis, Parnell was recklessly endangering the Irish party's all-important alliance with Gladstonian Liberalism.

Thus, from birth, Charles Stewart Parnell possessed an extraordinary number of links to many elements of society ; he was linked to the old Irish Parliamentary tradition via his great-grandfather and grandfather, to the American War of Independence via his grandfather, to the War of 1812 ( where his grandfather had been awarded a gold medal by the United States Congress for gallantry ); he belonged to the disestablished Church of Ireland ( its members mostly unionists ) though in later years he was to drop away from formal church attendance ; and he was connected with the aristocracy through the Powerscourts.

Parnell made it his business to cultivate Fenian sentiments both in Britain and Ireland and became associated with the more radical wing of the Home Rule League, which included Joseph Biggar ( MP for Cavan from 1874 ), John O ' Connor Power ( MP for County Mayo from 1874 ) ( both, although constitutionalists, had links with the IRB ), Edmund Dwyer-Gray ( MP for Tipperary from 1877 ), and Frank Hugh O ' Donnell ( MP for Dungarvan from 1877 ).

What is known is that IRB involvement in the League's sister organisation, the Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain, led to the moderate Butt's ousting from its presidency ( even though he had founded the organisation ) and the election of Parnell in his place on 28 August 1877.

However, a Commission of Enquiry, which Parnell had requested, revealed in February 1889 after 128 sessions that the letters were a fabrication created by Richard Pigott, a disreputable anti-Parnellite rogue journalist.

It had been a dangerous crisis in his career, yet Parnell had at all times remained calm, relaxed and unperturbed which greatly impressed his political friends.

It was soon ' revealed ' ( though it had been widely known among politicians at Westminster ) that Parnell had been the long-term partner of Mrs O ' Shea ( also known derogatively as " Kitty ") and had fathered three of her children.

Parnell issued a manifesto ' To the people of Ireland ' on 29 November saying a section of the party had lost its independence, and Gladstone's terms for Home Rule were inadequate.

During the meeting, Parnell had challenged Gladstone's intervention with the question, " Who is the master of the party?

Parnell in contrast had insisted in a major speech in Belfast in May 1891,

He fulfilled his loyalty to Katharine when they married on 25 June 1891 in Steyning Register Office, after Parnell had unsuccessfully sought a church wedding.

Historians speculate as to whether, had Parnell lived, the enactment of All-Ireland Home Rule with the consent of all of Ulster and its inclusion in an All-Ireland parliament, could have taken place.

In Knut Hamsun's 1892 novel Mysteries, the characters, on a couple of occasions, briefly discuss Charles Stewart Parnell, particularly in relation to Gladstone: " Dr. Stenerson had a high opinion of Parnell, but if Gladstone was so opposed to him, he must know what he was about — with apologies to the host, Mr. Nagel, who couldn't forgive Gladstone for being an honourable man ".

Anglo-Irishmen Edmund Burke, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Henry Grattan, Lord Castlereagh, George Macartney, Charles Stewart Parnell, and Edward Carson played major roles in British politics.

Parnell was played by a clean-shaven Clark Gable in Parnell, the 1937 MGM production about the Irish leader.

In 1954, Patrick McGoohan played Parnell in " The Fall of Parnell ( December 6, 1890 )", an episode of the historical television series You Are There.

In 1991, Trevor Eve played Parnell in the television mini-series " Parnell and the Englishwoman.

They were played by Emory Parnell and Isabel Withers.

Annis continued to be a leading television actress throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, appearing in series such as Edward the Seventh ( 1975 ) as Lillie Langtry, a role she reprised in Lillie ( 1978 ); Madame Bovary ( 1975 ); and Parnell and the Englishwoman ( 1991 ), in which she played Kitty O ' Shea ; as well as the miniseries Reckless ( 1998 ) and its 2000 sequel.

Meg was the schemer and all-around " bad " girl as well as the mother of " Beanie ( later " Ben ") Harper ," originally played by Dennis Parnell.

Saturday Night Live also did a parody of this show on the season 29 episode hosted by Will and Grace star Megan Mullally, with Phil Gordon played by Chris Parnell and comedian Kevin Pollak played by Jimmy Fallon.

However, Pesky hit just one home run in a game pitched by Parnell, a two-run shot in the first inning of a game against Detroit played on June 11, 1950.

He played for Parnell cricket club from the age of 16, and made his debut for Auckland in the Plunket Shield in December 1933.

Peter John Parnell Burge ( 17 May 1932 in Kangaroo Point, Queensland-5 October 2001 on the Gold Coast, Queensland ) was an Australian cricketer who played in 42 Tests between 1955 and 1966.