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Land League Celebration in Mayo

Posted in Anna Parnell, Michael Davitt, tagged , , on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Great excitement – I’ve been asked to speak at the Michael Davitt Museum in Straid, County Mayo this Friday, November 6th, as part of a celebration by the Michael Davitt National Memorial Association to mark 130 years since the foundation of the Land League. Michael Davitt is known as “The Father of the Land League”, [...]

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Great Irish Book Week!

Posted in Anna Parnell, articles, tagged , on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

“Petticoat Rebellion – The Anna Parnell Story ” has been selected for Great Irish Book Week, a special promotion of 30 top titles from Irish publishers. Senator David Norris, T.V. Presenter Kathryn Thomas, Author Anna McPartlin and The Arts Council’s Sarah Bannon successfully launched the Great Irish Book Week at the National Library on Thursday [...]

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Michael Davitt the Peacemaker

Posted in Anna Parnell, Michael Davitt, articles, tagged , , on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Kevin Myers wrote a lovely insightful article about Michael Davitt in today’s Irish Independent newspaper, called “None dreamed such impossible dreams as Davitt did and then made them come true”. Comparing Davitt to a nineteenth-century Ghandi, Myers writes, “Davitt’s real lesson for the world — which Ghandi learnt, but tragically Pearse and Connolly did not [...]

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Petticoat Rebellion review in Irish Times newspaper

Posted in Anna Parnell, reviews, tagged , , on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Anne Dolan, a lecturer in Irish history at Trinity College, Dublin, wrote an excellent review of Petticoat Rebellion which was published in the Irish Times newspaper on Wednesday 5th August. The review says that “Petticoat Rebellion portrays an Anna Parnell who understood the need for revolution on the land in a way that her brother [...]

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