THE LIFE OF PARNELL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15613, 20 May 1914, Page 9

THE LIFE OF PARNELL.

i ■;■•',•; ■•.■/.:'. ', i ' ♦» ~ ....... REMARKABLE LOVE STORY. THE O'BHEA INTRIGUE. ; IRISH LEADER'S DEVICES. t GLADSTONE'S FRIENDSHIP. 3y : Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. -:• .-(Received: May 19, 10.50 p>.\.) - Ottawa, May 19. The life of : Parnell ' has been published by Mrs. Parnell.The .book is a remarkable love story. Parnell held that the marriage; bond was not binding when love 'ceased. At the end of 1880, addressing \Mrs. Shea, he says :— "My,dearest wife." . /' After the debate in the House of Commons, I drove to Eltham, where I love living, and talked << until daylight.- I slept until four in the afternoon, when I went.toi't'ae Commons."

■; Mrs.; O'Shea's husband, in June, 1881, visited Eltham' without the customary invitation, and challenged Parnell to a duel. Y

'* Preventing Discovery.

The book provides an extraordinary revelation of Parnell' stratagems and devices to. prevent the discovery of the intrigue. He used false names, employed'cyphers, and once lived a fortnight at Mrs. O'Shea's house without the servants suspecting. While in prison at Kilmainham, he wrote .letters in visible'ink.When he learnt that a baby was i about' to be born, he secured his I release On parole for a week, stating I that he wished; to attend his nephew's funeral. He went to the O'Shea's house immediately. While Mrs o'Shea was upstairs with the dying child," Parnell and O'Shea were below talking of Irish politics far, into the night. When Parnell stole in at daybreak to bid good-bye before returning to prison, Mrs. ; O'Shea put the dying child into his arms. ; -

The Pigott Letters. When Parnell : heard of the Phcenik Park murders, he said he would resign. -Mrs. O'Shea replied "No, you are not , a coward. Parnell read the Pigott letters in the Times with unconcern, and was with difficulty persuaded to deny tliem. ". ~ ' '.''

The book reveals "a close subterranean relationship between Parnell and Gladstone.; Mrs. O'Shea states tHat she • acted as the . go-between, commencing in May, 1882," for 10 years. Gladstone' knew her relations : with Parnell and took advantage of them to keep in touch with Parnell, but he changed his attitude after the divorce in deference to the Nonconformist conscience.