Parnell filled in Irish imagination and feeling, how popular, how mysterious, how invincible he had been, to blame them because in the first moment of shock and bewilderment they did not instantly plant themselves in the judgment seat, always so easily ascended by Englishmen with little at stake.
Morley reflects on the public perception of Parnell and the immediate reactions of the Irish people following a crisis.
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