How fate undid Parnell, and Ireland

The Boston Globe | August 8, 1994| | Copyright

THE LAUREL AND THE IVY

The Story of Charles Stewart Parnell and Irish Nationalism

By Robert Kee

Viking, 659 pp., illustrated, $29.95

In the spring of 1889, suggests Irish historian Robert Kee, "the omens seemed set fair at last" for the British Parliament to grant Home Rule to Ireland. A gradual evolution to independence would probably have precluded the Easter Rising a quarter century later -- and without the Rising, perhaps no Civil War, no Partition and no IRA terrorism.

Had this happened, most of the credit would have gone to Charles Stewart Parnell, who had maneuvered Home ...

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