The second four-volume set in digitally-enhanced facsimile looks at four significant Irish political figures from the Victorian era. O'Connell, one of the most influential figures in nineteenth-century Ireland, divided public opinion more than any other politician of his era. O'Brien joined the Radical Reform Association in London but refused to support the use of violence in the cause of universal suffrage. Parnell was known as the 'uncrowned king of Ireland' and for much of the 1880s dominated political discussion in Britain. Davitt made the transition between the two political traditions of nationalism: the physical force approach of the Fenians and the constitutional methods of the Irish Parliamentary Party. These figures and the views of their contemporaries are essential for a full understanding of nineteenth-century Irish history, Anglo-Irish relations and the rise of nationalism.