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      JOHN

      REDMOND

      To Daragh, for her support and unending patience,

      and

      to Maila, Sahra and Esme.

      JOHN

      REDMOND

      SELECTED LETTERS AND MEMORANDA, 1880–1918

      EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

      DERMOT MELEADY

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      First published in 2018 by

      Merrion Press

      An imprint of Irish Academic Press

      10 George’s Street

      Newbridge

      Co. Kildare

      Ireland

       www.merrionpress.ie

      © Dermot Meleady, 2018

      9781785371554 (Cloth)

      9781785371561 (Kindle)

      9781785371578 (Epub)

      9781785371585 (PDF)

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      Cover/jacket front: John Redmond. Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library/Alamy Stock Photo.

      Cover/jacket back: John Redmond seated at desk in study; photo by A. H. Poole; image courtesy of the National Library of Ireland.

      CONTENTS

       Acknowledgements

       Abbreviations

       Introduction

       Chapter 1 The Young Wexford MP, 1880–1890

       Chapter 2 Defending Parnell, 1890–1891

       Chapter 3 Leading the Parnellites: The Split and Electoral Politics

       Chapter 4 Leading the Parnellites: The Second Home Rule Bill

       Chapter 5 Reunification and Leadership, 1900–1902

       Chapter 6 The Land Act and Conciliation, 1902–1907

       Chapter 7 The Fight for Legislative Reform, 1906–1909

       Chapter 8 The Lords, the Budget and the Veto, 1909–1911

       Chapter 9 The Third Home Rule Bill and Unionist Resistance, 1912–1913

       Chapter 10 The Volunteer Movement and Partition, 1914

       Chapter 11 The War and Irish Recruiting, 1914–1916

       Chapter 12 The Party and the Newspapers

       Chapter 13 Rebellion and its Aftermath, 1916

       Chapter 14 The American Organisation

       Chapter 15 The Party in Crisis, 1916–1917

       Chapter 16 Last Chance for Constitutionalism, 1917–1918

       Chapter 17 Private and Family Life

       Endnotes

       Index

      All items from the Redmond Papers, William O’Brien Papers, J.F.X. O’Brien Papers, William J. Walsh Papers, T.P. Gill Papers, T.C. Harrington Papers, John Muldoon Papers, Joseph McGarrity Papers, J.J. Horgan Papers, Patrick Ford Papers and W.G. Fallon Papers used in this book appear courtesy of the National Library of Ireland.

      All items from the Dillon Papers appear by permission of the Board of Trinity College Dublin.

      Items from the Asquith Papers appear by permission of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and those from the Lloyd George Papers by permission of the Parliamentary Archives, Westminster.

      My thanks are due to the directors, executives and librarians of the National Library of Ireland, the manuscript library of Trinity College Dublin, the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the Parliamentary Archives, Westminster for their assistance in the use of these manuscripts.

      Finally, I am grateful to the Redmond family, the National Library of Ireland, the Mary Evans Library and the Chicago History Museum for permission to reproduce images used in this book.

NLINational Library of Ireland
TCDManuscripts Library, Trinity College Dublin
RPJohn Redmond Papers
WOBPWilliam O’Brien Papers

      John Redmond left no diary or volume of memoirs. Of his contemporaries who did, the two most important were also his two bitterest political foes throughout much of his career. His deputy leader, John Dillon, who led the Irish Parliamentary Party for a brief spell between Redmond’s death in

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