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John Edward Redmond (1 September 1856 – 6 March 1918) was an Irish nationalist politician, barrister, and MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. He was best known as leader of the moderate Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) from 1900 until his death in 1918.
John Redmond (born Sept. 1, 1856, Dublin, Ire.—died March 6, 1918, London, Eng.) was the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party (commonly called the Irish Nationalist Party, or the Nationalists) who devoted his life to achieving Home Rule for Ireland.
John Redmond. 1856-1918. John Redmond’s life-long struggle was to achieve Irish self-government and to reconcile unionists with nationalists and Ireland with England. After a distinguished...
March 2018 marks the centenary of the death of John Redmond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, which had dominated party political life since the heyday of Parnell in the 1880s. It would all but be wiped out by Sinn Féin in the December 1918 General Election. Was that inevitable?
Mar 1, 2018 · Raised in a Catholic minor gentry family in the south east of Co Wexford, Redmond inherited constitutional nationalism from his father, Ireland’s first Home Rule MP and co-founder of the Irish...
Born in County Wexford, John Redmond (1856–1918) was the leader of Irish constitutional nationalism in the first decades of the twentieth century. An effective parliamentarian throughout his career, Redmond was a loyal follower of Charles Stewart Parnell, becoming one of his chief supporters in Parnell's final years.
Apr 24, 2018 · For 18 years in a row, John Redmond was elected chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party – from February 1900 until his untimely death in March 1918.
Feb 17, 2011 · John Redmond was leader of the Home Rule Party (otherwise called the Irish Parliamentary Party) between 1900 and 1918 and after 1912 was seen by many as Ireland’s prime minister in...
The second and most prominent, dating from his post-1900 leadership of the Irish Party, is familiar in standard narratives of twentieth-century Irish history: a bulky, conservative parliamentarian—for some a complacent dupe, for others a noble constitutionalist martyred between Irish extremists and British politicians.
Mar 25, 2015 · John Redmond led the Home Rule Party that wanted to end Westminster’s dominance in Ireland. John Redmond was born in 1856. He had a Jesuit-based education and became a barrister after studying law at Trinity College, Dublin. He became MP for New Ross in 1880, aged 24. He served here until 1885.
