Life
1780-1821 [later Parnell-Hayes], b. Avondale; ed. Cambridge; g-f. of Charles
Stewart, he used the Hayes name in view of his father inheriting the estate
from the Hayes family; Deputy Lieutenant of Co. Wicklow, 1817, 1819-20;
MP for Wicklow, 1817-21; opposed the Union and regarded as good landlord;
followed antiquarian interests and restored church at Glendalough; wrote
An Inquiry into the Causes of Popular Discontents in Ireland, (1804);
An Historical Apology for the Irish Catholics ([Printed for J.
Harding] 1807), 190pp.; Sermons (1816); Maurice and Bergetam,
or The Priest of Rothery (1818), novel; Notes on the Need for Government
Grants for Educating [the] Catholic Poor (1820). DNB
DIW DIH
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Works
Comment, Inquiry into the causes of popular discontents in Ireland
by ‘An Irish Gentleman’ (1804); An Historical Apology for
the Irish Catholics ([Printed for J. Harding] 1807), 190pp.; An
Historical Apology for the Irish Catholics (Dublin: J. Harding 1807),
190pp.; Notes on the Need for Government Grants for Educating [the]
Catholic Poor (1820). Fiction, Maurice and Bergetam,
or The Priest of Rothery (1818).
Notes
Roy Foster, Paddy and Mr Punch (John Lane/Penguin 1993),
His works characterised as ‘amateur histories [written] between prospecting
for antiquities and restoring the 7th c. church at Glendalough [...]’,
p.4. Further, Inquiry into the Causes of Popular Discontents [&c]
violently attachs the Union, ‘You can tell us to interest ourselves
in the glory of the English governemtn; we tell you we cannot. Why? Because
we cannot love our stepmother as our mother [...] Give us, then, back
our independence [...] we might yet be a happy and a wealthy people [...]
(Foster, op. cit., p.52). See also Foster, Charles Stewart Parnell:
The Man and His Family (Brighton 1976), Pt. 1, Chap. 2.
Agitated minds: ‘[I]maginations [...] have been worked up
to such a degree of agitation, by poor Sir Richard Musgrave’s Tales
of terror [i.e., Memoirs of the Different Rebellions]’ (Inquiry
into the causes of popular discontents in Ireland, 1804; quoted in
Claire Connolly, ‘Writing the Union’, in Dáire Keogh & Kevin Whelan, eds.,
Acts of Union: The Causes, Contexts and Consequences of the Act of
Union, Dublin: Four Courts Press 2001, p.183.)
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