Paul Bew is Professor of Political Science at Queen's University, Belfast and one of the most distinguished historians of modern Ireland. His most recent book is Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789 - 2006.
“Perhaps the most striking feature of Professor Paul Bew’s book is
how much is packed into so little space...his trick is not to dwell
on the nuances of Parnell’s upbringing...but to examine
forensically every dramatic episode of the epic life” Michael
Foley, The Sunday Times
‘A significant new assessment of Charles Stewart Parnell and his
place in the politics of his period which is at once a masterpiece
of compression and of clarity of expression.’
Maurice Hayes, Irish Independent
‘A riveting portrait ... “astonishing” scarcely does justice to the
political achievements of the deeply strange, even dysfunctional
man at the heart of Bew’s book … How are we to reconcile the
sleep-walking, paranoid inadequate who obsessed about the colour
green and the number 13, with the parliamentary titan who came to
terrify the Speaker of the Commons with his deadly procedural
prowess by 1880?’
John-Paul McCarthy, The Spectator
‘Bew’s magnificent study leaves a deepened appreciation of the
force of Joyce’s characterisation of Parnell as an Irish leader who
was “strong to the verge of weakness”.’
Frank Callanan, The Sunday Independent
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