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John Redmond : the national leader / Dermot Meleady.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Sallins, Co. Kildare, Ireland : Merrion Press, an imprint of Irish Academic Press ©2013, 2018Description: xii, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781908928313 .
Subject(s):
Contents:
Reconstruction -- The limits of conciliation -- Home rule by instalment -- "You take too gloomy a view" -- "I stand where Parnell stood" -- At the harbour's mouth -- The hateful expedient -- "And God save England too!" -- The politics of hope -- "Detestation and horror" -- Humiliation and loss -- A last chance.
Summary: Published to coincide with the centenary of the Government of Ireland Act 1914, this majesterial biography of John Redmond begins in 1901 shortly after his election as chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the Westminster Parliament. It details his reconstruction of the party following its reunification after the destructive decade-long Parnell split, and its re-fashioning as a political weapon for winning Irish Home Rule.
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First published in 2013 by Merrion Press

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-482) and index.

Reconstruction -- The limits of conciliation -- Home rule by instalment -- "You take too gloomy a view" -- "I stand where Parnell stood" -- At the harbour's mouth -- The hateful expedient -- "And God save England too!" -- The politics of hope -- "Detestation and horror" -- Humiliation and loss -- A last chance.

Published to coincide with the centenary of the Government of Ireland Act 1914, this majesterial biography of John Redmond begins in 1901 shortly after his election as chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the Westminster Parliament. It details his reconstruction of the party following its reunification after the destructive decade-long Parnell split, and its re-fashioning as a political weapon for winning Irish Home Rule.

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