Feelings ran high in Ireland, and Land League radicals advocated drastic responses to the government's repressive measures, chiefly a withdrawal to Ireland of the Irish members and a general strike against rent. The letter was a forgery, and condemned as such by Parnell. In the commons he impassively endured a tumultuous ovation from the Liberals who had doubted his ability to achieve so complete a vindication in the matter of the letters. He agreed to try to keep his followers from using violence to achieve their aims. Harold Frederic wrote in the New York Times: ‘The manifesto published this morning came with the detonating force of a dynamite explosion. . En route, Parnell was permitted to despatch a letter to Katharine O'Shea. The ‘Plan of Campaign’, first promoted in an article in United Ireland on 23 October 1886, contemplated the collective proffering of reduced rents by tenants on individual estates; if the rent tendered was refused, the monies were to be applied to the support of any tenants ejected for non-payment of rent. Responding to an attack by Gladstone, Parnell at Wexford referred to the prime minister as ‘this masquerading knight errant, this pretending champion of the rights of every other nation except those of the Irish nation’. It became a cliché, originating in English parliamentary gossip and press commentary, that Parnell was arrogant and dismissive towards the members of his party. While there, he continued to encourage farmers not to pay rent and to fight for Home Rule. En route to France he went to Eltham, where Katharine placed their dying child Claude Sophie in his arms. Parnell made a sudden and belated attempt to contest the election of February 1874. While his rhetoric was effective in dispelling the residual respect and gratitude many nationalists felt towards Parnell, whether it commanded actual credence is more uncertain. Striking photographs of Parnell, reputedly the last, were taken by Katharine O'Shea in Eltham. in a sort of English matrix’ of hostile fascination, became possessed by his own myth. Charles Stewart Parnell was born into a family of eleven children as the seventh born to John Parnell and Delia Stewart on the 27th day of June 1846. Parnell liked the work of J. D. Reigh; a portrait by Reigh was reproduced and enclosed as a supplement with the historic edition of United Ireland published on 10 October 1891 on his death. Murphy & McCarthy, 1881 - 320 pages. ‘Dealing with him was like dealing with a foreign power’, as Charles Dilke told Barry O'Brien (Parnell, i, 225). Early Life Charles Stewart Parnell was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, on June 27, 1846. John Howard Parnell disposed of the remaining Parnell interest in the quarries in 1898, and was obliged to sell Avondale in 1900. Parnell's attitude towards Gladstone had always been sceptical. Gladstone's scheme fell short of conceding dominion status, never mind the separation for which Fenians aspired. With this exchange Parnell won notoriety at Westminster, and popularity in Ireland. Lord Frederick Cavendish (qv), who was married to Gladstone's niece, was named as chief secretary for Ireland. In what he said he scarcely departed from the Buttite orthodoxy of fair rent and fixity of tenure; he also made vague obeisance to the principle of land purchase. Please note: Text within images is not translated, some features may not work properly after translation, and the translation may not accurately convey the intended meaning. In early April Parnell lost the second by-election of the split, in Sligo North. John Dillon and William O'Brien emerged as its chief supporters, vociferously abetted at one remove by Healy. Try as they might, it was difficult for even his most loyal parliamentary followers to resist correlating Parnell's absences to his relationship with Katharine O'Shea. The possibility of bringing Gladstone to an acceptance of home rule offered Parnell a greater prize than could ever have been obtained from Chamberlain. Parnell invested heavily in mining and quarrying ventures in Wicklow, in particular stone quarrying at Big Rock, near Arklow, from which he supplied paving setts to Dublin corporation. Many Irish people had turned against Parnell. We haven't found any reviews in the usual places. have you seen Parnell?” ’ (Our book of memories, 108).