Words of the Dead Chief: Being Extracts from the Public S...
Parnell, Charles Stewart / McCartney, Donal / Travers, Pauric
An important text from a critical period in Irish nationalist politics. Published in 1892, shortly after Charles Stewart Parnell's death, it is a collection of extracts from his speeches, including all of the best-known ones. There is an unmistakeable, political even, propagandist dimension to the publication. It was written for a nationalist audience and particularly for followers of Parnell. Wyse-Power explains in her preface that the purpos...