1. Parnaell
... as Chief Secretary to inaugurate the new era of peaceful progress, but on the day of his arrival, 6 May 1882, he and the Under-Secretary, Burke, were murdered in the Phoenix Park by members of a secret assassination society, the Invincibles. The British government reacted with a new Coercion Act. In the House of Commons, Parnell condemned the murders; despite this setback Gladstone ... ...
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