Clodagh Finn: Founder of Ladies’ Land League, Anna Parnell, to get poignant homecoming

If anyone deserves a central place in history, it is the sister of Charles Stewart Parnell who mobilised ordinary women to take real action against landlord rule

The ‘Irish Joan of Arc’, Anna Parnell, will be commemorated with a plaque at the Ladies’ Land League’s original headquarters at the AIB bank on O’Connell Street, Dublin, next Monday.

Anna Parnell, founder of the Ladies’ Land League, patriot, artist, and sister to Charles Stewart, is finally coming home. In a sense at least.

The ‘Irish Joan of Arc’, as she was described in her day, will be commemorated with a plaque at the League’s original headquarters at the AIB bank on O’Connell Street, Dublin, next Monday, exactly 110 years after she died by drowning off the north Devon coast in England.