The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-26

William Hoey Kearney Redmond,
the brilliant and patriotic representa-
tite of East Glare in the British par
lament. and brother of the present
Irish leader, Hon. John E. Redmond.
M. p will, within the next few weeks
address half a dozen meetings in the
principal cities of the United States
While he is on his way across the con-
tinent from San Francisco returning
from Australia to Ireland
Mr.. Redmond has been in Australia
for his health for several months past,
his health having been shattered by his
| latest imprisonment in connection with
the national movement in Ireland.
When the present Tory government re-
entered on it's coercion policy thee
years ago. William Redmond was one
of the first men arrested under the re-
newed coercion regime. He had only
just returned to ireland from visit
to the United States. where he and Mr..
Joseph Devlin, NJ. P. for North Kill
kenney, had completed most success
full organizatng tour in the interest of
the United Irish league in this coun-
try.
Mr. Redmond was sentenced to six
months imprisonment in Kilmainham
jail, and he served the greater part of
his sentence, when the government
took another somesault and abandoned
it's coercion policy.
Mr.. Redmond had suffered severely
during his rigorous imprisonment and
he was subsequently compelled to in
terrupt his parliamentary attendance
and take a prolonged rest on the con-
tinent in the effort to recover his
strength. His progress towards re-
covery was exceedingly slow, however,
and last winter he was ordered to take
a prolonged sea voyage and remain for
a consider9 BILE time in some warm eli
mate, so that his health may be re-
stored He, therefore proceeded to
Australia, where he has a number of
relatives by marriage, and is now re-
turning to ireland by way of San
Francisco. He is accompanied by
Mrs. Redmond, who is by birth an
Australian lady. and was before her
marriage Miss Dalton.
Although it was not Mr.. Redmond g
intention when going to Australia to
address any public meetings. his coun-
trymen in the antipodes when they
found he was among them, insisted on
his addressing several large meetings
in the principal cities of the Australian
commonwealth, and they have re-
suited in considerable financial support
for the Irish movement
Mr.. Redmond and his elder brother,
the present leader more than twenty
years ago, made a tour of the Austria
liam colonies and succeeded in securing
a large amount of support for the
movement then led by Parnel. On his
present trip. Mr.. Redmond has like
wise succeeded in having the cabinet
ministers and high government Of
ficials in each of the colonies declare
their hearty support of the Irish Ma
tional movement, and endorse the de-
mand of the Irish people for self gov
eminent, while many of them have at
tended and spoken with Mr.. Redmond
at meetings he has addressed in
Australia.
But perhaps the most effective ally
in support of his work there has been
Cardinal Moran, the head of the Cath
Ole church in Australia, who not alone
attended and spoke a Mr.. Redmond's
meetings in Sydney and elsewhere, but
has taken the preliminary steps to-
wards establishing permanent fund
in support of the National movement
among the people in Australia,
Mr. Redmond, Notwithstanding his
impaired health, is still comparatively
young, being in his 4ath year. He was
born in Wexford in 1861. and is son |
of the late William Archer Redmond, |
NJ. P. who sat as Nationalist repre-
sentative for the borough of Wexford !
from 1872 till his death in 1880.
William Redmond was educated att
the famous Jesuit college of Clongwes, |
outside of Dublin and took his degree |
as b. l. at Dublin university in 1881. !
He was first elected to parliament in
1883 as member for the borough of |
Wexford, which had so long been rep
resented by his father and when the
borough was disfranchised under the
redistributionto seats bill in 1885, he
was elected member for North Ferman- |
agh, for which he sat, till the general
election in 1892, when he was elected !
for East Clare, which he still repre- |
sents.
Mr. Redmond has been a Nationalist |
from hoyhood and served the first of
half dozen terms of imprisonment be- |
fore he had become of age. Indeed he |
passed his 21st birthday on April L. |
1881 d prisoner in Kilmainham jail
under Forester's coercion act, being !
one of the earliest suspects" arrested I
when that measure became law.
AS has been stated, he has served |
several other terms of !mDrisorl1ant i
since and was the last member of the |
Irish party imprisoned under the coer- |
cion act to be released three years ago. |
William Redmond is almost as well |
known TO his couhtr.rmen throughout |
the world as is his Brother, the present |
chairman of the Irish party. He has
visited Australia twice in the interest
of the Irish movement. and this makes
his fifth visit to the United States in
the same work. He Travelled all over
the American continent at Parnel's 1
request in 1883, addressing meetings
and arousing interest in the land league
movement
He came again in 1884, when, with
Thomas Sexton. then the orator of the
Irish party, he visited Boston to attend
as Parnells personal representative at
the great convention of the American
land league held in Faneuil han in
August of that year. No Irish delegate
that has ever visited America was more
popular than the young man who is
now the representative of East Clare
in the English parliament was among
his countrymen i'm America at that date.
William Redmond represents in his
own person some historic episodes in
Irish history. Some of his family shed
their blood for Ireland in the memor-