Why did Parnell avoid Ottawa in 1880?
Surely Charles Stewart Parnell should have visited Ottawa during his North American tour of 1880? The capital of Canada, where the parliament of the autonomous Dominion of Canada was actually in...
View ArticleLecky dip? Gladstone's reading of Irish history
A note on Gladstone's use of academic writing on Irish history as part of his campaign for Home Rule.
View ArticleGladstone, Canada and calibration: Part 1 of Gladstone and Canada
"Gladstone, Canada and calibration" forms the first part of a two-part essay examining Gladstone's involvement with, and attitudes towards, British North America.
View ArticleGladstone Through the Looking Glass: Part 2 of Gladstone and Canada
"Gladstone Through the Looking Glass" is the continuation of "Gladstone, Canada and calibration: Part 1 of Gladstone and Canada":...
View ArticleGladstone on www.gedmartin.net
A guide to material relating to William Ewart Gladstone on Ged Martin's website.
View ArticleHow to pronounce Parnell and say O'Shea
The relationship between Charles Stewart Parnell and Katharine O'Shea is one of the great tragic love stories of the nineteenth century. Yet, somehow, over a century later, their names are invariably...
View ArticleHistory of Magdalene College Cambridge on www.gedmartin.net
Material about Magdalene College Cambridge on www.gedmartin.net represents the results of my own interest in the history of Cambridge University, and does not imply any official endorsement by the...
View ArticleWaterford on www.gedmartin.net
County Waterford material examines overseas connections and focuses upon local communities.
View ArticleNew Zealand reads about Ardmore (County Waterford), 1852-1931
Newspapers and magazines thrived in late nineteenth century New Zealand: by 1910, a population of a million people had the remarkably broad choice of 67 daily newspapers, plus a range of weekly...
View Article"... a word too grossly indecent to be put into print": sabotage at The...
Patrons of the early edition of The Times of Monday 24 January 1882 would have been surprised to read that, in the midst of a speech on current political issues, the Home Secretary, Sir William...
View ArticleA New Zealand heritage tour through County Waterford
County Waterford, on Ireland's south coast, has an unusual number of connections with New Zealand. These links are loosely gathered here in an informal outline tourist trail through the county from...
View ArticleWhy Parliament does not meet at Buckingham Palace
In July 2023, it was suggested that Parliament might meet in Buckingham Palace while renovations were carried out at Westminster. The idea is not new.
View ArticleParnell at Cambridge: the shreds and patches of a 1914 lecture
On 15 May 1914, L.P. Carolan McQuaid delivered a lecture on "Parnell and Cambridge" to the University's Hibernian Club. In 1898, Parnell's biographer, R. Barry O'Brien, had assembled some evidence...
View ArticleEdward Charles Hamilton: the person Parnell punched
On a Saturday evening in May 1869, the future Irish leader Charles Stewart Parnell became involved in a fight outside Cambridge railway station with a local man, Edward Charles Hamilton. Following a...
View ArticleThe departure of Charles Stewart Parnell from Cambridge, 1869
On a Saturday evening in May 1869, Charles Stewart Parnell, the future Irish leader, became involved in a fight outside Cambridge railway station with a local man, Edward Charles Hamilton. Following an...
View ArticleCharles Stewart Parnell on www.gedmartin.net
A guide to material relating to Charles Stewart Parnell on Ged Martin's website.
View ArticleMagdalene College Cambridge Notes: was jugged wallaby served at High Table?
"Wallaby: reserved for the Master and Fellows of Magdalene College." Did such a notice really appear in the window of a Cambridge butcher's shop in 1910?
View ArticleCharles Stewart Parnell, Cambridge University and the fable of Daisy
In 1905, Charles Stewart Parnell's sister claimed that he had been expelled from Cambridge University for seducing a local girl and driving her to suicide. Although the story was nonsense, it lingered...
View ArticleRecollections and reconstructions: accounts of the departure of Charles...
Charles Stewart Parnell left Cambridge in 1869 after becoming involved in a street fight and losing a court case for assault. This essay examines various accounts of the episode, some based on hearsay,...
View ArticleBush: the London area origins of an Australian term
In 1974, soon after taking up a research post at the ANU in Canberra, I published a Note on the origin of the distinctive Australian term "bush". [It appeared in Australian Literary Studies, vi (1974),...
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