[Fanny Parnell [Frances Isabel Parnell], sister of the Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell.] Contemporary manuscript copy of her poem ?Post Mortem? (?Shall mine eyes behold thy glory, O my country??).

See her entry and her brother?s in the Oxford DNB. The item is from the collection of Irish nationalist autographs assembled by Miss Burgess of Norfolk in the 1890s, who has endorsed one leaf in her distinctive hand ? ?Post Mortem? / By Fanny Parnell?. Undated. 3pp, 4to. On two leaves of paper with Dollard watermark. Poem of twenty-eight lines, in seven stanzas, titled ?Post Mortem?. From a comparison with a letter in the National Library of Ireland certainly not in Fanny Parnell?s hand. A fair copy, with one mistake (corrected) confirming transcription: ?loveliness? for ?loneliness?. At end: ?Fanny?, with ?Parnell? added in another hand, and ?(The late Mr C S. Parnells mother) in another hand, with ?mother? corrected to ?Sister? by Burgess. The poem appeared in H. Halliday Starling?s 1887 anthology ?Irish Minstrelsy?, under the title ?After Death?. The only difference between the present version and that one ?sun burst? here for ?sun-blaze? there.