The Work of The Irish Leagues. The Speech of the Rt. Hon. Sir Henry James Replying in The Parnell Commission Inquiry. London: Cassell, published for the Liberal Unionist Association, [1891]. First Edition. Pp xii, 862. Library binding of blue cloth boards, title lettered in gilt to spine. Neat library stamps to preliminary leaves, otherwise a very good copy.

A remarkably comprehensive study of the agrarian struggle in Ireland between 1879 and 1883, charting the determined efforts of figures such as Michael Davitt and Charles Stewart Parnell to challenge the entrenched power of the landlord system. Many landlords—often absentee and enjoying comfortable lives in London—presided over estates where impoverished tenants endured chronic insecurity and near‑starvation.

The Parnell Commission Inquiry, established by the British government in 1888, investigated allegations—published by The Times—that Charles Stewart Parnell and other Irish Parliamentary Party leaders had supported agrarian violence and were linked to the Irish National League and Land League campaigns. The inquiry became one of the most dramatic political trials of the Victorian era.