Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2016
Dr Lyons’s admirable study of the downfall of Parnell, recently published, has raised once again the question of the relations between Joseph Chamberlain and the Irish leader and more particularly of the part alleged to have been played by Chamberlain in bringing about the latter’s ruin. Like the late Henry Harrison, who devoted so many eloquent pages to this subject, Dr Lyons had to write without access to Chamberlain’s own papers, which, however, do not contain, so far as I am aware, anything that is at variance with his main conclusions. Nevertheless, they do containcertain letters, which are not mentioned in J.L. Garvin’s Life of Joseph Chamberlain and which supplement Dr Lyons’s account.
1 F.S.L. Lyons, The fall of Parnell, 1890-91 (1960).
2 Henry Harrison, Parnell vindicated ( 1931 ); Parnell, Joseph Chamberlain and Mr Garvin (1938); ‘Parnell’s vindication’ (above, v.231-43, 1947); Parnell, Joseph Chamberlain and ‘The Times’ (1953).
3 Now in the Library of the University of Birmingham.
4 Garvin, J.L., Life of Joseph Chamberlain, ii. 384 Google Scholar.
5 O’Shea, Katharine, Charles Stewart Parnell, ii. 216-7Google Scholar.
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8 Above, v. 232.