Event

Kilmainham Treaty

2 May 1882 · 53.34° N, 6.31° W

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When
2 May 1882
Kind
Event
Coordinates
53.34° N, 6.31° W

Placed at the site its text puts it in, Kilmainham Gaol.

Summary

The Kilmainham Treaty, an agreement between the British government and Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell to abate tenant rent arrears, is announced; Parnell is released from Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin.

Kilmainham Treaty

Informal agreement between William Gladstone and Charles Parnell

The Kilmainham Treaty was an informal agreement reached in May 1882 between Liberal British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone and the Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell. Whilst imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol, Parnell moved in April 1882 to make a deal with the government, negotiated through Captain William O'Shea MP.

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