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Charles Stewart Parnell

Irish politician (1846–1891)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 21, 2026
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Charles Stewart Parnell was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882, and then of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1882 to 1891, holding the balance of power in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom during the Home Rule debates of 1885–1886. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1875 to 1891. He fell from power following revelations of a long-term affair, and died at the age of 45.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Charles Stewart Parnell” is irish politician (1846–1891). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Charles, Stewart and Parnell, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1880, 1882, 1891, 1885—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Charles, Stewart and Parnell is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1880, 1882, 1891 and 1885.

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This entry incorporates text from “Charles Stewart Parnell” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.