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Redmond was a conciliatory politician who achieved the two main objectives of his political life: party unity and, in September 1914, the passing of the Government of Ireland Act 1914. The Act granted limited self-government to Ireland, within the United Kingdom.
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.
Apr 3, 2024 · 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.
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Redmond’s central problem was that—like most others—he expected the war to be short. Redmond and a Liberal-run Dublin Castle administration kept the lid on the Irish situation until the Easter Rising (itself partly motivated by expectation that the war would be decided in summer 1916).
Mar 10, 2018 · Redmond’s failure to appreciate the strength and commitment of Ulster Unionism was a major miscalculation and one that has been repeated by successive generations of Irish nationalists since...
Taking advantage of the favorable political conditions provided by the election of 1910 and the Parliament Act of 1911, Redmond was able to force a Liberal Party dependent on nationalist votes to pass the Third Home Rule Bill into law in 1914. Redmond seemingly had won Home Rule for Ireland.
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Mar 16, 2018 · 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?
