CHARLES STEWART PARNELL
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The people to be shunned were those who would bid for a property that a tenant had been evicted from for failure to pay rent. The rents would be raised to outrageous amounts for people whose crops had failed in the famine. Finally, the British government institutes rent control even though philosophically opposed to it. See {617607}.
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Charles Stewart Parnell was an Irish nationalist politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1875 to 1891, also acting as Leader of the Home Rule League from 1880 to 1882 and then Leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1882 to 1891. His party held the balance of power in the House of Commons during the Home Rule debates of 1885–1886.