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Representations of Charles Stewart Parnell in English and Irish Newspapers University of Bristol Department of Historical Studies Best undergraduate dissertations of 2009 Rachel de Courcy Representations of Charles Stewart Parnell in English and Irish Newspapers PDF processed with CutePDF evaluation edition www.CutePDF.com In June 2009, the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol voted to begin to publish the best of the annual dissertations produced by the department’s 3rd year undergraduates (deemed to be those receiving a mark of 75 or above) in recognition of the excellent research work being undertaken by our students. As a department, we are committed to the advancement of historical knowledge and understanding, and to research of the highest order. We believe that our undergraduates are part of that endeavour. This was one of the best of this year’s 3rd year undergraduate dissertations. Please note: this dissertation is published in the state it was submitted for examination. Thus the author has not been able to correct errors and/or departures from departmental guidelines for the presentation of dissertations (e.g. in the formatting of its footnotes and bibliography). The author, 2009. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the prior permission in writing of the author, or as expressly permitted by law. Candidate Number: 29705 Representations of Charles Stewart Parnell in English and Irish Newspapers Introduction Charles Stewart Parnell became leader of the Irish nationalist movement in May 1880 when he was elected head of the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP), having already been elected president of the Land League (LL) – a more extreme nationalist organisation - in October 1879. He remained head of Ireland’s nationalist movement until December 1890, when his long-standing affair with Katherine O’Shea came to light. This caused Gladstone, under pressure from English Non-conformists, to force the IPP to choose between retaining Parnell as their leader or preserving the Liberal alliance and implicitly the attainment of Home Rule by constitutional means. During his time as Ireland’s nationalist leader, Parnell achieved three great feats. The first was the overthrow of landlordism which resulted in a dramatic change to the Irish land tenure system. The second was the unification of the divergent strands of nationalism – from the Fenian extremists at home and in America to the moderates – into a highly disciplined, constitutional movement for Home Rule, and, finally, the conversion of the British Liberal Party to the Home Rule cause. Even more impressive was the fact that he led Ireland to the brink of success, with a number of historians, including Hurst and Cruise O’Brien, arguing that had the divorce scandal not erupted when it did, he would in all probability have achieved Home Rule after the next general election.1 Through these achievements, Parnell secured for himself a place among Irish heroes of the calibre of O’Connell, Wolfe Tone and de Valera. It could, in fact, be argued that his achievements surpassed theirs as he alone was ever acknowledged as the leader of the Irish ‘race’.2 1 Conor Cruise O’Brien, Parnell and his Party 1880-90 (Oxford, 1957), p.349-50 and Michael Hurst, ‘Parnell in the Spectrum of Nationalisms’ in D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day (eds.), Parnell in Perspective (London, 1991), p.103. 2 D. George Boyce and Alan O’Day, ‘Introduction’, in Boyce and O’Day (eds.), Parnell, p.1. 1 Candidate Number: 29705 Parnell clearly had a complex career, and this dissertation investigates how representations of him varied among different sections of the newspaper press at two particular points in his career. As yet, no historical work addresses this issue, although there are a number of works that skirt around the edges, thereby highlighting the absence of an in-depth approach to this area. Firstly, Loughlin produced an article exploring Parnell ‘the political spectacle’. This, however, focused on how Parnell sought to create and maintain his public image rather than on how he was actually portrayed. 3 It is unlikely that throughout his career he was represented everywhere in Britain in line with the image he tried to construct of himself. Secondly, Curtis, and especially De Nie, both produced books that touched on the topic, by investigating how the Irish were represented in the Victorian British press. Both these books focused on how such representations in the press were largely a consequence of anti- Irish prejudices in Victorian England, based on class, race and religion.4 Neither De Nie nor Curtis, however, focused on Parnell specifically, instead concentrating on the Irish in general. Having said this, De Nie did dedicate a few pages to the portrayal of Parnell during the Land War of 1879-82. De Nie asserted that: British journalists spilt most of their ink on the national leaders of the Land League, and on none more than Charles Stewart Parnell. From about 1880 until his premature death in 1891, Parnell’s visage was … a burning subject for some journalists.5 3 James Loughlin, ‘Constructing the Political Spectacle: Parnell, the Press and National Leadership, 1879-86’ in Boyce and O’Day (eds.), Parnell. 4 L. Perry Curtis, Jr., Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Caricature (New York, 1971) and Michael De Nie, The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798-1882 (London, 2004). 5 De Nie, Eternal Paddy, p.209. 2 Candidate Number: 29705 This was then followed by a few sentences which claimed that Parnell was consistently rebuked and shown as simply another example of Irish demagogues in the British press during these years.6 If it is true that Parnell attracted significant journalistic attention, then a few pages on one phase of his early career does not seem sufficient to address the issue of how he was represented in the British press. Similarly, to brush Parnell aside as somebody who was consistently depicted in a negative light by all British newspapers would seem like a considerable oversimplification, especially when one bears in mind that he was involved in a number of major events such as the Land War, the fight for Home Rule, the divorce scandal and the party split. It is unlikely that all newspapers would have viewed these events in exactly the same light. This dissertation, therefore, addresses this ‘hole’ in historical research, through a case study of the editorials and letters to the editor of four newspapers. Editorials and letters to the editor have been chosen as these are the sections in the newspaper in which the opinions of the newspaper are expressed most clearly. The first newspaper that has been made use of is The Times, a London-based newspaper that for the majority of the 19th century retained an independent stance although, under its owner John Walter III, it began to drift to the right of the political spectrum, an occurrence that coincided with Parnell’s career.7 The second newspaper, Reynolds’s Newspaper, was also London-based, but in complete contrast to The Times, it was a radical, 6 Ibid, p.209-10. 7 H.C.G. Matthew, ‘Chenery, Thomas (1826-1884), newspaper editor’. <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5215>. January 2009; Dilwyn, Porter, ‘Walter, John (1818- 1894), newspaper proprietor and politician’. <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28638?docPos=5>. January 2009 and ‘Time, The’. <http://www.victorianperiodicals.com/Series2/showarticle.asp?id=93431&HighlightedField=town,cou nty,title&HighlightedWords=London~The~Times>. January 2009. 3 Candidate Number: 29705 working-class paper, which usually took up a centre-left republican position.8 Thirdly, Freeman’s Journal was utilised which was a Dublin-based newspaper with liberal- nationalist sympathies.9 Finally, the Belfast-based Belfast News-Letter was used, which adhered to a consistently conservative political position throughout the nineteenth century, while being located in the hub of unionist activity.10 It is likely that these four newspapers expressed views which were fairly typical of other English conservative, English radical, Irish liberal, and Irish conservative newspapers. This case study, therefore, also enables a comparison to be made between how Parnell was represented in the English and Irish press, as well as a comparison of how he was portrayed by liberal and conservative sections of the press. The first chapter of this dissertation examines his representation by all four newspapers during the Land War. This was the time when Parnell rose to ascendancy, attaining the title of ‘the uncrowned king of Ireland’, as well as when he flirted most frequently with extremism on his tour of America. The time-frame for this period has been taken from October 1879 when he was elected president of the LL until the end of October 1882 when he formed the Irish National League (INL), effectively severing his link with agricultural agitation and committing himself to the attainment of Home Rule via constitutional means. The second chapter investigates representations of Parnell in the same four newspapers during the most controversial period of his life - the divorce scandal and consequent party split, from December 1889 when Captain O’Shea filed the divorce petition naming Parnell as co- 8 ‘Reynold’s News’. <http://www.victorianperiodicals.com/series2/showarticle.asp?id=103351&HighlightedField=title&Hi ghlightedWords=reynolds%27s~weekly>. January 2009. 9 G.B. Smith and Alan O. Day, ‘Gray, Edmund Dwyer (2845-1888), newspaper proprietor and politician’. < http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11332>. January 2009. 10 ‘Belfast News-Letter’. < http://find.galegroup.com/bncn/publicationByLocation.do>. January 2009. 4 Candidate Number: 29705 respondent, until his death in October 1891. Here not only are differences between the newspapers highlighted in both chapters, any changes in their representations of him between the two periods are as well.
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