Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above : Portrait Of Charles Stewart Parnell In 1875, a new member, recently elected for Co. Meath, and who had contested the seat on Home Rule lines, made his first appearance in the House of Commons This was Charles Stewart Parnell, then a young man of 29, the great-grandson of Sir John Parnell, whose opposition [...]

Above : Painting Of Prime Minister Pitt It had already been mentioned that, for several years previous to the1798 Insurrection, the project of a legislative union between England and Ireland had been present to the mind of Pitt, and that this was well known to the authorities at Dublin Castle, though carefully concealed from the [...]