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Did Charles Stewart Parnell do more to advance or to retard the cause of Irish Independence?
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... Did Charles Stewart Parnell do more to advance or to retard the cause of Irish Independence? Charles Stewart Parnell has on many occasions been described as the greatest Irish leader since Daniel O'Connell. He was similar in that he used to his powerful persona to gather support for his cause and to hold on to it, in order to make significant progress. Being born into one of the greatest families of Protestant Ascendancy, Parnell lived a relatively quiet life until he entered the furore of politics in 1874. He became an avid Irish Nationalist (which was, no doubt, a consequence of his mother's extremely nationalistic persuasion), and ultimately was elected as Home Ruler for the Irish constituency of Meath in 1875, and in 1877, he was again elected to be the President of the Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain. It is here that his great contribution to the history of














