PARNELL'S LOVE AFFAIR

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2154, 21 May 1914, Page 5

PARNELL'S LOVE AFFAIR

HIS WIDOW'S STORY ' INCIDENTS OF HISTORIC EVENTS By Telegraph—Press' ilKracliition-CopyriElit "Times" and Ssrdnev "Sun" :kirvi,?;.'6. (ltcc. .May 20, 5.'20 p.m.) London, May 20. Mrs. O'Shea (who hittorly became Jlrs. I'nrnell), in hor book discloses Parncll's intense passion, heightened by the cool cynicism of his comments upon politics. When Captain Q'Sliea, was returned for the Clare seat, ho gave frequent disner-s. Tlio hostess was piqued, tincause Parnell ignored the invitations, and she declared that she would bring him. Slio went to (.Iso house, and soiifc her card in, and when he eaiiu; out and conversed with hor she dropped a rose from hor bodice. He piokwl it up, Within two months Parnell wrote: — "I cannot lcooji myself mvay from youany longer." Before the year was out sho hid him in a room oil hers for h fortnight, whore he composed sppMhos and read "Alice ii.t Wonderland. I ''

The Irish Nationalists were harrowed by tlio published descriptions of tlio sufferings Parnell endured in Kilniaiit* ham Prison. He explained that be was quite comfortable, but the stories were published in order to stimulate the Irish subscriptions, and. so leave the Aluorican money for other purposes. Parnell wrotcin February, 1882, that lie was glad tlio platform oratory had ended, because ho Was disgusted with tlio meetings, lnwwin.jr how hollow and how wanting in solidity everything in conncction with tlio movement' was. Mrs: O'Shea persuaded liim to draft tlio Kilmainhain Treaty, realising the.intensity of tlio hate that bad boon Jet loose.

■ On Octobcr 13, JSSI, Mr. Panwl! was arrested undor the Coercion Act aiKl !orl»ed in Kilmainliam Gaol, Fiiidiii-i that the imprisonment of snspoets umicr the Cnercion -iOf did not liitve ilie ri?* ■suit, and outrages were Mr. Gladstone resolved on a cisFiipiete of policy. The throe imprisoacd momfcers of Parliament, Messrs, Tarwll, Billon, and O'Kclly, were reiKiscd on May 2, ISB2, against the wiste of the Irish. Viceroy and Secretary, lord C.'owper and Mr. Forster, who rosiffßHl. These incidents were known as the KilmUinlvam Treaty. It was alleged thai there was an understanding between the Government ami Mr. Parnell as to Irish aiYrrirs. Tlwre was- fo bo a complete change fi-nni crcpfcion, and Mr. • Parnell was to cooperate jrt the advancement of Wberiil principles, Sir, Gladstone alwavs denied that tliwe was a "Kilmaiiiham Tpwity." A few tlrivs later the Phoenix Park murders shocked the world, and the policy of conciliation came to a Sudden end.