PARNELL'S SECRET HISTORY.
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MRS O'SHEA'S BOOK
(B7 Cabh.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received May 20th, 5.20 p.m.) LONDON', May 10. Mrs C'Shea's book discloses ParnelFs intense passion, heightened by the cool cynici&m of bis comments upon politics. When Captain O'Shea was returned ior Clare, he gave frequent dinners. Mrs O'Shea was niqucd because Parnell ignored the iuvitations. She declared she would bring him. Sbo went to his house and sent her card in. Parnell came out and conversed with her. She dropped a. roso from her bodice and he picked it up. Within two months Parnoll wrote: "I cannot keen myself away from you any longer " Before the year was out she had him in a room off hers for a- fortnight, he composing speeches and reading "Alice in Wonderland." The Nationalists were harrowed with descriptions of : tho sufferings Parnell endured at Kilmainham Gaol. He explained that he was quite comfortable, but the stories published would serve to stimulate Irish subscriptions to the Nationalist cause, and le-ave tho money from America free for other purposes.
He wrote in February 1882: "J am glad the platform oratory has onded. because I am disgusted with the meetings, knowing how hollow and wanting in solidity everything connected with the movement is."
Mrs O'Shea persuaded him to draft the Kilmainham treaty, realising tho intensity of the hate that had been let loose.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14978, 21 May 1914, Page 7
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231PARNELL'S SECRET HISTORY. Press, Volume L, Issue 14978, 21 May 1914, Page 7
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