Here's Dan's response:

Hi Joe!

The only "Queens" that makes sense is Queen's County. That is the old name for Co. Laois (pronounced "leash" and also spelled Leix and at one time Laoighis). I don't know the significance of the line but the fact that Dublin was the political center of the country and Queens was not probably plays into it.

Kilmainham is a prison alright. It is also a district of Dublin on the south bank of the Liffey just west of the city center and that's where the prison is located.

Parnell has often been called the "Uncrowned King" of Ireland. He had great public support. Obviously, the Roman Catholic Church could not have supported him at that time given his affair with Mrs. O'Shea. It also did not want to.

History has made some strange bedfellows.

All the best,
Dan

Thanks, Dan.
-Joe Offer-