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Explore genealogy for Charles FitzSimons born 1885 Kells, County Meath, Ireland died 1972 Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States including ancestors + descendants + more in the free family tree community.
- Male
- September 8, 1885
- Marguerite (Lilburn) Fitzsimons
- August 26, 1972
24 de may. de 2018 · Immediate Family: Son of Bartle Fitzsimons and Bridget Fitzsimons. Husband of Marguerita Fitzsimons. Father of Maureen O'Hara; Margaret Fitzsimons and Charles Fitzsimons. Brother of Patrick Fitzsimons; James Fitzsimons; Mary E. Fitzsimons; Bartholomew FitzSimmons; Catherine Fitzsimons and 4 others.
- Kells, County Meath
- Marguerita Fitzsimons
- County Meath
- September 8, 1885
Discover life events, stories and photos about Charles Stewart Parnell Fitzsimons (1885–1972) of Kells, County Meath, Ireland.
2 de mar. de 2021 · Books. Parnell: The prototype of the ‘charismatic leader’. The larger-than-life politician had a novel force of personality and a grandeur even in failure. Charles Stewart Parnell...
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- Early Life
- Parnell's Political Rise
- Parnell's Politics of Obstruction
- Parnell and The Land League
- Parnell Branded A Terrorist
- Scandal, Downfall, and Death
Charles Stewart Parnell was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, on June 27, 1846. His mother was American, and held very strong anti-British views, despite having married into an Anglo-Irish family. Parnell's parents separated, and his father died while Parnell was in his early teens. Parnell was first sent to a school in England at the age of six. He...
In the 1800s, Members of Parliament, meaning the British Parliament, were elected throughout Ireland. In the early part of the century, Daniel O’Connell, the legendary agitator for Irish rights as the leader of the Repeal Movement, was elected to Parliament. O'Connell used that position to secure some measure of civil rights for Irish Catholics, an...
In the House of Commons, Parnell perfected the tactic of obstructionism to agitate for reforms in Ireland. Feeling that the British public and the government were indifferent to Irish complaints, Parnell and his allies sought to shut down the legislative process. This tactic was effective but controversial. Some who were sympathetic to Ireland felt...
In 1879 Michael Davitt founded the Land League, an organization pledged to reform the landlord system that plagued Ireland. Parnell was appointed the head of the Land League, and he was able to pressure the British government to enact the 1881 Land Act, which granted some concessions. In October 1881 Parnell was arrested and imprisoned at Kilmainha...
Ireland was rocked in 1882 by notorious political assassinations, the Phoenix Park Murders, in which British officials were murderedin a Dublin park. Parnell was horrified by the crime, but his political enemies repeatedly tried to insinuate that he supported such activity. Parnell was not steeped in the revolutionary history of Ireland, unlike mem...
Parnell had been living with a married woman, Katherine "Kitty" O'Shea, and that fact became public knowledge when her husband filed for divorce and made the affair public record in 1889. O'Shea's husband was granted the divorce on grounds of adultery, and Kitty O'Shea and Parnell were married. But his political career was effectively ruined. He wa...
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