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| The 1882 Phoenix Park Murders stunned the Gladstone Administration. The event occurred just after Charles Stewart Parnell was released from Kilmainham jail, Dublin, where he had been confined for his violent speeches against the Land Act (1881), which he considered insufficient land-reform legislation. The result of the assassinations was a revulsion against terrorism. Parnell, who had just compromised with the British government over the land question, was consequently able to subordinate the Irish National League, a nationalist organization, to the more moderate Home Rule Party in Parliament. However, the murders created deep distrust within the British political establishment and many British politicians became hardened against any compromises towards Home Rule. Image Courtesy of Irish Times. |
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