Brian Cregan: Parnell [2014] paperback ZFTRA So he builds a boat

So he builds a boat and sails away on a voyage of adventure

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Brian Cregan: Parnell [2014] paperback ZFTRA So he builds a boatDublin, March 1874. Charles Stewart Parnell, only twenty six years old, speaks in public for the first time as a candidate for Ireland's Home Rule Party. Hesitant and nervous, he stumbles through his speech to the sound of booing and leaves the platform humiliated. He vows that in future he will find his voice and make it heard. Within three years of this speech, Parnell made the House of Commons unworkable; within six years he had destroyed the