The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-04-12
His Boyhood Days at the Famous
Jesuit College of Clongowes
Wood, Kildare.
Interesting Light Thrown on the
Early Dispositions and Tastes
of John Redmond.
Like a Number of Others He Served
a Term of Imprisonment I'm
der the Coercion Act.

Among recently published London
books is one entitled John Redmond:
The Man and the Demand" from the
pen of the Irish leaders, nephew, Mr..
I. G. Redmond-Howard. The author
gives an account of Mr.. Redmond's
school days at the famous Jesuit Col
lege of Clongowes Wood, in Kildare.
and incidentally throws an interest
ing light on the early dispositions and
tastes of the distinguished parliament
tartan, of whom Gladstone is said to
have once declared thar this young
man possesses the true parliamentary
instinct" when the great liberal
statesman had heard him speak as
practically only a "private member"
OF the Jesuits. the Irish leader has
declared that "they have made me all
that 1 ann and his loyalty to the old
school has not suffered diminution
with the passing years.
Many Of his old school fellows sur
vive who we'll recollect him as Clon-
gowes boy, and MI. Redmond Howard
has been in correspondence or COM
munication with many of them re-
garding those. years. From the very
first, t appears, John Redmond show
ed signs ct exceptional ability; was
very fond of literature, as we'll as
sports and hunting. His debating
abilities in the College Union won him
especial notice, while as an actor in
Shakespearian and other parts, he
was the pick of the higher school
forms. His essays, say Howard's in
formants, were always the best of ev-
cry class through which he passed.
Father Kane, one of his masters, still
living, stated that the most remark
able feature about young Redmond was
his maturity quality, the same
professor said, which was due to the
intimate and almost brotherly asso-
citation Of the boy with his father, who
was also NJ. P. for an Irish constitu-
ency.
On leaving the Jesuit College, young
Redmond proceeded to the Irish bar,
and Mr.. Stead is quoted as saying of
the future pariamentarian that his
earliest impressions Of Redmond were
as a temperance reformer. After a
Sknv~
father, young Redmond became con-
tributor to the Catholic publication
known as the Weekly Register 1t
was in 1881 that Redmond entered
parliament, when, as he afterwards
declared, there was a crisis in Irish
history. He first entered the COM
mons as member after a whole
night journey from Ireland, the whip
having telegraphed him an urgency to
be on hand after his election. He
made his way to the house at o'clock
in the morning to find parliament still
sitting without a break of over forty
hours. Here is Redmond's own de-
scription of the scene: *rhc floor
was Uttered with paper. few dis
hevelled and weary Irishmen were on
one side of the house and about a hum
dred infuriated Englishmen on the
other. Mr.. Parnell was on his legs
with pale cheeks, and drawn face, his
hands clenched behind his back, fac
ing without flinching az continuous
roar of interruption. 1t was one un-
broken scene of turbulence and dis
order. The galleries were filed with
strangers every whit as excited as the
members. At last Mr.. Speaker Brand
acting on his own responsibility, and
in defiance of the rules of the house
ordered the debate to cease. The Iris
members rose in their seats and left
the chamber in body shouting
Privilege a cry not heard in tina,
place since Charles attempted to in.
wade the liberty CT parliament
On the next day, Redmond took the
oath and his seat, made his nader
speech and was suspended and ex.
PEELED from the house for the rest o
the sitting. A record! Once, when ir
Melbourne, Mr.. Redmond was asked
to define his idea of Home Rule, an
did 20 in the following words: q