Introduction; Part 1: Contexts of Power; 1: Parnell and the Catholic Church, C. J. Woods; 2: Parnell and Davitt, Paul Bew; 3: Parnell and William O'Brien: Partners and Friends - From Consensus to Conflict in the Land War, Sally Warwick-Haller; 4: Parnell in the Spectrum of Nationalisms, Michael Hurst; 5: Parnell and Bagehot, D. George Boyce; 6: The Fall of Parnell: The Political Context of his Intransigence, Philip Bull; Part 2: Ideas and Images; 7: The Political Thought of Charles Stewart Parnell, Tony Claydon; 8: The Economic Thought of the Nation's Lost Leader: Charles Stewart Parnell, Liam Kennedy; 9: Parnell: Orator and Speaker, Alan O'Day; 10: Constructing the Political Spectacle: Parnell, the Press and National Leadership, 1879-86, James Loughlin; 11: Parnell in Irish Literature, John Kelly; 12: 'The Portrait of the King is the King': The Biographers of Charles Stewart Parnell, D. George Boyce; Index