Do you want to know Answers to the True/False Quiz A Monument to more about Parnell? Charles Stewart Parnell 1. True Visit the following websites for more 2. True History permeates every information: 3. True inch of the Irish landscape. One of the biggest names in “Charles Stewart Parnell.” Clare 4. True this city was Parnell. A County Library 05 Aug. 2006 5. True monument now honors him in Dublin’s city center.
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Use online resources to learn more Scottsboro High School about Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish history, and Irish literature. August 5, 2006 Brochure Prepared by Leilani Kesner Test Your Knowledge Who designed the Parnell monument? “The Uncrowned King about of Ireland” “The monument was executed in New York Charles Stewart Parnell by Dublin-born sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens” (Healy 7) and now “stands on the central island A “former True where Parnell Street crosses the top of O’Connell friend” and “bitter An affair with a married woman led to Parnell’s losing his political posi- or Street” (Healy 6). John Redmond, Parnell’s succes- foe” of Charles tion. False sor “as leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party” was Stewart Parnell, responsible for instigating the Parnell monument, Michael Davitt “partly as a symbolic gesture to honour the “wrote of him, ‘To True ‘uncrowned king of Ireland’ and to consolidate his Parnell’s mother was an American deny his greatness who had strong anti-English feelings. or aspiration to reunite the constitutionalists under his would be like deny- False own leadership” (www.dublincity.ie/Images). ing the existence of Also according to www.dublincity.ie/Images, a mountain’” (Abel Parnell attended the “unveiling ceremony for the 7). A formidable True Parnell entered parliament when he O’connell Monument accompanying the archbishop and “charismatic” was still in his twenties. or in his ceremonial carriage” (17). leader, Parnell en- False The inscription listed below appears on the tered the parliament Charles Stewart Parnell monument, which includes a bronze figure of at age 29 “as a 1846-1891 True Parnell on a pillar of Ashlar granite. On the day of Parnell died at the age of forty-five. member of the or the unveiling, “Dublin Corporation changed the Home Rule League, pressing for Irish autonomy,” False name of Great Britain Street to Parnell Street” according to his “Historic Figures” biography at (Healy 7). bbc.co.uk/history.
True After “two British diplomats” were murdered W.B. Yeats wrote a poem titled “Parnell’s Funeral.” or in Dublin’s Phoenix Park, a forged letter asserted False Parnell’s support for these violent acts, but “proof that the letter was a forgery transformed Parnell into a hero in the eyes of English liberals. It was Parnell is credited with bringing “The True the peak of his career” (bbc.co.uk, para. 4). Irish question to the forefront of British or poltics” (www.factmonster.com). False Certainly, Parnell provides a study in contrasts. As a landowner, Parnell did not stand to benefit personally from agrarian reforms he proposed. Star of Gone with the Wind, Clark True His mother, an American, was “violently—if not Gable once played Charles Parnell in “...no man has the right to say to his a Hollywood movie made about his or pathologically—anti-English,” (Abels 11), and life. False country, ‘thus far shalt thou go and no Parnell became the voice of the Irish national futher’ and we have never attempted to fix the movement. However, there is an old Gaelic saying ne-plus-ultra to the progress of Ireland’s that “even wise men have flaws.” Charles Stewart True For his activities, Parnell served time nationhood, and we never shall. Go soirbhighidh Parnell ‘s politically-fatal flaw involved a scandalous or in jail. Dia Éire dá clainn. [That God may make Ireland association with a married Englishwoman named False Kitty O’Shea in whose divorce he was named. flourish for her people.]” —Charles Stewart Parnell