THE PARNELL LETTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 2, 21 May 1914, Page 5

THE PARNELL LETTERS.

ROME DISCLOSUKBS. Times and Sydney Sun Service®. Received 20, 5.20 p.m. London, May 20. I Mrs. O'Shea's (Mrs. Parnell's) book discloses that Parnell's intense passion was heightened by cool cynicism. When Captain O'Shea was returned for Clare, she gave frequent dinners. The hostess was piqued because Parncll ignored the invitations, and declared that she would bring him. She went to his house and sent ber car din. He came out and conversed with her. She dropped a rose from her bodice. He picked it up. Within two months Parnell wrote: "I eannot keep myself away from you any longer." Before the ye»r was out, she 'hid him in a room of hers for a fortnight, be composing speeches and reading "Alice in Wonderland."

The Nationalists were harrowed at the descriptions of the sufferings Parnell endured at Kilmainham. He explained that he was quite comfortable, but stories were published: to stimulate Irish subscriptions and leave the American money for other purposes. He wrote in February, 1882, that he was glad that the platform oratory wa9 ended, because he \vas disgusted at the meetings, knowing how hollow and wanting in solidity everything connected with the movement was.

Mrs. O'Shea persuaded liim to draft a Kilmainham treaty, realising the intensity of the hate that had been let loose.