Tag: ‘Parnellism and Crime’

#OTD in 1889 – Richard Piggott, who had a long-standing hatred of Charles Stewart Parnell, is exposed as forger of ‘Times’ Phoenix Park letters.

10/02/2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

The Parnell Commission was a judicial inquiry in the late 1880s into allegations of crimes by parliamentarian Charles Stewart Parnell which resulted in his vindication. On 6 May 1882 two leading members of the British Government in Ireland, Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Cavendish and the Permanent Under-Secretary for Ireland T.H. Burke were stabbed […]

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#OTD in 1889 – Richard Piggott, who had a long-standing hatred of Charles Stewart Parnell, is exposed as forger of ‘Times’ Phoenix Park letters.

10/02/2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

The Parnell Commission was a judicial inquiry in the late 1880s into allegations of crimes by parliamentarian Charles Stewart Parnell which resulted in his vindication. On 6 May 1882 two leading members of the British Government in Ireland, Chief Secretary for Ireland Lord Frederick Cavendish and the Permanent Under-Secretary for Ireland T.H. Burke were stabbed […]

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