1973/12/01 by F.S.L. Lyons · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Historical Studies of British Isles #Irish and British Studies #Lament #Irish #Expansive #Interpretation (philosophy) #Politics #Introspection #History #Literature #Philosophy #Art #Law #Political science #Linguistics #Epistemology
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‘It is not easy to describe the mental life of a man who is neither expansive nor introspective’. Thus wrote T. P. O'Connor, one of Parnell's earliest biographers. Historians have never ceased to echo his lament, and however much they may have differed in their interpretation of Parnell, they have generally agreed that, while no Irish leader of the nineteenth century has been so intensively studied, none remains so enigmatic and inaccessible.