The Forgery That Put Irish Independence On Trial

In 1887 the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party Charles Stewart Parnell read a forged letter, supposedly written by himself, that implicated him in the murder of two government officials. The scandal that emerged led to the party facing a judicial enquiry over its conduct and putting the dream of Irish self governance in peril.
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Charles Stewart Parnell, A Biography: The Definitive Biography of the Uncrowned King of Ireland by FSL Lyons
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@@matthewhastings2568 Well, Parnell keeps coming up a lot as an inspiration to the various Jewish national movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries- primarily between Home Rule and Autonomism/Bundism/Zionism, as well as between Irish and Hebrew language revival. In the next video it's Michael Davitt who makes an appearance.

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@@SamAronow That's fascinating. Subscribed so I can check out that next video. Michael Davitt very nearly made it into this video but I cut him for pacing reasons.

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My only deep enough area of study in history is in Ireland (Especially in the 19th century, not particularly intentional), so it's weird watching an obscure historical video actually knowing the story. Though I guess Parnell was influential enough to contemporary politics that we can't consider it THAT obscure. Really well done btw. Told the beats about as accurately on any of me old lectures on the on him, with strong presentation and narration, fairplay.

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Haha Truthfully I did linger on 'IR...' for a fraction of a second because I knew people were going to expect me to say 'A'.

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This would make a brilliant film! Why was this never mentioned in history at school?

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Parnell was actually a part of my leaving cert history course

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There's a mini series from the 80s I think. I didn't watch it because I didn't want to be narratively influenced by it.

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It was mentioned when I was in secondary school.

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Thank you. I'm working on a new video atm of which I'm about halfway through the video edit (research, writing, narration done so on the last step). I wish I could give specifics on when it will be finished but its hard to anticipate which parts will take a long time.

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Very good, but an error to correct at 45:57 when you meant to say "Parnell" as master of the party, but instead you said "Gladstone" by mistake

[@patc9518]

Just a little thing, but didn't Boycott indeed bring down Orange men frim the North to bring in the harvest. Glad to hear he had to pay dear for it.

[@melmcintyre3211]

It's interesting how a bag that would have been in police custody turned up with the letters It's interesting how The Nation newspaper was printed right beside Dublin Castle It's interesting how the Catholic/Protestant Church who were viciously against the Catholic/Protestant people ( who were United at the start of the land wars) came together along with Parnell to redirect the issue It's interesting that the first person to have a rent strike by the people was Cannon Burke Maybe this was a setup, and this was always going to be the outcome It's interesting how all the aristocracy who plundered Ireland, including James Stewart Parnell and were all bankrupt, including the Catholic church' came together to fight for our freedom I wonder if there was something going on behind the Green curtain

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Fantastic video, but the music hall name is wrong. He was Harry Randall, not Richard. He describes the situation in his autobiography published in 1931, and mentions that the song only lasted a night until Piggott's suicide. A good read if you're into that stuff.

[@antadhg]

Very good video, though I thought the ending was a bit too fast. Do you have any good sources on mid 19th century Fenianism as a whole? I'd been thinking of reading about them for a while but I'm not sure where to start.

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Yep. I actually have sources in the description that will point you towards exactly what your looking for.

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The daggers used by the Invincible's were retrieved from the Liffey via a diving bell, I don't know if the find was part of the investigation or coincidental.

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[@Cm1st]

Do you have any books about Parnell that you can recommend?

[@imparter9337]

There's a bibliography in the description. Charles Stewart Parnell by F.S.L. Lyons was one book I read.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

Weirdly, I just found out about this. Although the title is surely misleading, Independence was not on the cards. The stupidity of that man for getting into another scandal. The real hilarity for me is how Conservative (I mean otherwise Tory.) many revolutionaries are, even Éamon de Valera said so.

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Parnell was part of the Establishment. the same class as the British establishment. What about O'Connor Power?

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was a pleasure to work with you on this! :)

[@imparter9337]

It's yourself!

[@chloebradley-almond5911]

Parnell was part of the British establishment he went to Cambridge. British do not go to Cambridge unless establishment

[@jimduffy7199]

Superb video, with so much information I had not known. One very minor error: you used the American pronunciation when saying Lord Lieutenant, saying 'lewtenant'. In Ireland and Britain, lieutenant is pronounced 'left-tenant'. So the office was pronounced Lord Left-tenant. Just a minor quibble.

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Thank you. Sorry but I have to ask - You wouldn't happen to be Jim Duffy the journalist and former staffer for Fine Gael, would you?

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The 4 greatest Irish people, Charles Stewart Parnell, Mary Ann McCrackin, Bertie Ahern and John Hume.

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Bertie Ahern??????? Are u serious? 😳

[@brianmccabe2430]

@@panoramicLight Mary Ann left her brothers(Henry Joy) execution to continue her campaign to stop slavery. Bertie left his mothers funeral to go back to the peace negotiations in Belfast.

[@panoramicLight]

@@brianmccabe2430 wow you have high standards of patriotism. Not. That's your threshold of greatness???? That's your threshold.??? Seriously, no wonder the country is in the abject mire that it is in. And Bertie was one of those architects of Irish destruction.

[@brianmccabe2430]

@@panoramicLight His input to the Good Friday Agreement, has saved thousands of lives. That my friend, is un-quantifiable in money terms. However since 2007 how many elections were held, the winners there of have failed. There is your problem

[@panoramicLight]

@@brianmccabe2430 input in giving the border strip to the EU. And shenanigans that has allowed an easy passage to the United Ireland UNDER the UK. Note the rarity of the term REPUBLIC in official terms. Rarity of the national anthem. The rarity of the term Dail, which is now exchanged for Rialtas na hEireann. Gov.ie similar to Gov.UK. It laid the ground work for serious coup of loyalties to the Irish people. He's not fit to kiss the boots of Arthur Griffith or Michael Collins.

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How's support for an independent Irish monarchy?

[@Aegis---]

already suffered under one monarchy, why would we advocate for another?

[@chloebradley-almond5911]

Hello it was not an affair. it was Victorian Britain and Ireland, not like the poor Irish who got the kids taken off them.

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R.IP. CSP !

[@GettingStressful]

Please stop calling genocide a famine, there was copious amounts of food in Ireland but it was shipped out to the British Empire as usual.

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A famine and a genocide aren’t contradictory terms. Generally speaking, in a famine, there is enough food to go around, but, due to human actions, it isn’t being distributed to those in need.