Fanny and Anna Parnell have been the sisters of the nineteenth century Irish patriot chief, Charles Stewart Parnell, and consequently have been frequently ignored as ancient personalities of their personal correct. The daughters of an Anglo-Irish landowner of County Wicklow and his American spouse, they rejected the attitudes and privileges in their social classification to develop into passionate Irish patriots. via their writing, - poetry, pamphlets, and political essays, - their public speeches, fund elevating and political actions as founders of the Irish nationwide Land League within the usa, Canada and eire, they made an enormous contribution to the fight for land reform and Irish domestic Rule.
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