The Parnell split in Westmeath: The bishop and the newspaper editor in Bloomington, MN

This book relates the remarkable story of the Parnell split in Westmeath and argues that it was part of a wider revolt by a section of the Catholic middle class against the dominant role of the church in the politics of the county. [Subjects: Irish History; Local History; Nineteenth-Century History; Irish Politics; Social History; Parnell; Westmeath]