Parnell: A Novel

Gladstone paused for a moment, reflecting on the verdict he was about to deliver. "I have thought on this for some time," he said, "and I would say that Mr. Parnell was the most remarkable man I ever met ... He was a phenomenon. He did things quite unlike other men. He said things quite unlike other men ... I would say that he was a genius – a genius of a most uncommon order." Dublin, March 1874: Charles Stewart Parnell, only 26 years old, speaks in public for the first time as a candidate ...