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Parnell successfully sued for libel and Pigott shot himself. Richard Pigott was born in Ratoath , County Meath , in As a young man he supported Irish nationalism and worked on the publications The Nation and The Tablet before acting as manager of The Irishman , a newspaper founded by Denis Holland. James O'Connor later claimed Pigott embezzled funds from The Irishman Holland, who had no business sense, left its affairs to Pigott and covered his tracks by not keeping written records.

Nothing was done about his accusation and Pigott turned against the League, which was allied to the Irish Parliamentary Party led by the League's president, Charles Stewart Parnell. In Pigott was proprietor of three newspapers, which he soon sold to the League. Hitherto a zealous nationalist, from onwards Pigott vilified his former associates and sold information to their political opponents.

In an effort to destroy Parnell's career, Pigott forged several letters which purported that Parnell had supported the perpetrators of the Phoenix Park murders of Parnell immediately denounced it as "a villainous and barefaced forgery". In February , the Parnell Commission vindicated him by proving that the letters were fake. They included misspellings specifically 'hesitency [ sic ]' which Pigott had written elsewhere.