Launching the Counterattack: Part II of The Roman Catholic Hierarchy and the Destruction of Parnellism.

The article focuses on the life and works of Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell. Parnell earned a patriotic reputation in Ireland by opposing the Act of Union with Britain and by supporting Catholic emancipation. He first came to attention in the public eye when in 1876 he claimed in the House of Commons that he did not believe that any murder had been committed by Irish nationalists in Manchester, England.