IRELAND SINCE PARNELL

BY

CAPTAIN D.D. SHEEHAN

BARRISTER-AT-LAW

LATE M.P. FOR MID-CORK

LONDON
DANIEL O'CONNOR
90 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, W.C.1
1921

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
[FOREWORD]
I.[A LEADER APPEARS]
II.[A LEADER IS DETHRONED!]
III.[THE DEATH OF A LEADER]
IV.[AN APPRECIATION OF PARNELL]
V.[THE WRECK AND RUIN OF A PARTY]
VI.[TOWARDS LIGHT AND LEADING]
VII.[FORCES OF REGENERATION AND THEIREFFECT]
VIII.[THE BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT AND WHAT IT CAMETO]
IX.[THE LAND QUESTION AND ITSSETTLEMENT]
X.[LAND PURCHASE AND A DETERMINED CAMPAIGN TO KILLIT]
XI.[THE MOVEMENT FOR DEVOLUTION AND ITSDEFEAT]
XII.[THE LATER IRISH PARTY--ITS CHARACTER ANDCOMPOSITION]
XIII.[A TALE OF BAD LEADERSHIP AND BADFAITH]
XIV.[LAND AND LABOUR]
XV.[SOME FURTHER SALVAGE FROM THEWRECKAGE]
XVI.[REUNION AND TREACHERY]
XVII.[A NEW POWER ARISES IN IRELAND]
XVIII.[A CAMPAIGN OF EXTERMINATION AND ITSCONSEQUENCES]
XIX.[A GENERAL ELECTION THAT LEADS TO A "HOMERULE" BILL!]
XX.[THE RISE OF SIR EDWARD CARSON]
XXI.[SINN FEIN--ITS ORIGINAL MEANING ANDPURPOSE]
XXII.[LABOUR BECOMES A POWER IN IRISHLIFE]
XXIII.[CARSON, ULSTER AND OTHERCONSIDERATIONS]
XXIV.[FORMATION OF IRISH VOLUNTEERS AND OUTBREAKOF WAR]
XXV.[THE EASTER WEEK REBELLION ANDAFTERWARDS]
XXVI.[THE IRISH CONVENTION AND THE CONSCRIPTION OFIRELAND]
XXVII.["THE TIMES" AND IRISHSETTLEMENT]
XXVIII.[THE ISSUES NOW AT STAKE]
[POSTSCRIPT]

[FOREWORD]

The writer of this work first saw the light on a modest farmstead in the parish of Droumtariffe, North Cork. He came of a stock long settled there, whose roots were firmly fixed in the soil, whose love of motherland was passionate and intense, and who were ready "in other times," when Fenianism won true hearts and daring spirits to its side, to risk their all in yet one more desperate battle for "the old cause." His father was a Fenian, and so was every relative of his, even unto the womenfolk. He heard around the fireside, in his younger days, the stirring stories of all the preparations which were then made for striking yet another blow for Ireland, and he too sighed and sorrowed for the disappointments that fell upon noble hearts and ardent souls with the failure of "The Rising."