The Life Of John Redmond

Download or read book John Redmond written by Dermot Meleady and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish nationalist leader John Redmond left no diaries or memoirs, but was a prolific letter-writer. In John Redmond: Selected Letters and Memoranda, 1880–1918, Dermot Meleady skilfully edits Redmond’s correspondence to offer new and first-hand perspectives on key moments in Ireland’s history via the many-faceted postbag of one of its most able political figures. Spanning four decades, these letters to and from key figures such as John Dillon, William O’Brien, David Lloyd George and Herbert Asquith trace Parnell’s downfall, the reunification of the Irish Parliamentary Party, Irish participation in the First World War and the destruction of Redmond’s lifelong dream of Home Rule in the aftermath of the Easter 1916 rebellion. Redmond’s untimely death in 1918, after a wave of shocks and disappointments, marked a sadly premature end to an immense personality as well as the end of an era, but this book brings to life many of the episodes of the vibrant politics of his period. Above all, it gives Redmond back his own voice, allowing him to speak directly to us from a century ago and to correct some of the caricature to which he has sometimes been reduced in the popular memory and academic discourse.

Download or read book The Book of Irish Golf written by John Redmond and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the origins of golf in Ireland, including the legendary courses and players of this hugely popular sport.

Download or read book The Life of John Redmond written by Denis Gwynn and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book John Redmond written by Dermot Meleady and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dermot Meleady's authoritative second part of his full-length biography of John Redmond, the first to be published in 80 years, begins in 1901 shortly after his election as chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the Westminster Parliament, and ends with his death in 1918. The book details Redmond's reconstruction of the Party following its reunification after the destructive decade-long Parnell split, and his refashioning of it as a political weapon for winning Irish Home Rule. It follows his role in successfully passing the Conservatives 1903 Land Purchase Act which greatly accelerated the transfer of land ownership from Irish landlords to Irish farmers. His successes and failures in the years of the 1906 10 Liberal Government are also fully documented, but when the Liberals move in 1911 to remove the House of Lords veto, the stage is set for the passage of the third Home Rule Bill, the paramount goal of Redmond s endeavours. The events of the following turbulent five years the increasingly militant resistance of Ulster Unionism to Home Rule, the outbreak of the Great War and the unforeseen Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916 as much a blow against Home Rule as against British rule cast him down from triumphant prime-minister-in waiting to the status of Ireland s lost leader. Through exhaustive research in Redmond's personal papers, Dermot Meleady has produced the definitive story of one of the most tragic figures in twentieth-century Irish political history.

Download or read book The Life of John Redmond written by Warre Bradley Wells and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of John Redmond written by Denis Gwynn and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book John Redmond's Last Years written by Stephen Lucius Gwynn and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: