Charles stewart parnell biography of albert

About the year 1863, a tall, intense, and handsome girl, with dark hair and hazel eyes, used occasionally to walk, heavily veiled, from their mother’s town house at 14, , to an office near to , where a Fenian newspaper, founded in that year by John O’Leary, was published.

Her serious manner and studious looks were surprisingly accompanied by a witty tongue, for it is not common for a woman to be both witty in her speech and serious in her behaviour, but she showed none of her wit when she entered the office of the Irish People. As a rule she made these visits to newspaper offices alone – she afterwards contributed poems and articles to the Nation and the United Irishman – but sometimes her elder brother, a tall, lanky, stammering, handsome youth of nineteen, went with her.

They would enter the editor’s office, where the girl would place a manuscript, generally of a poem, in the editor’s hands, and then, as silently and as unobtrusively as t