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in Ireland. and for majority of that
time he was the recognized leader OF
Ireland's struggle for liberty" AS
chairman of the Irish parliamentary
party-the nationalists-he exerted a
powerful influence in bringing about
the creation of the Irish convention or
ganized in July. 1917, to devise sys-
TEN of government for the island. Red
mond was one of the delegates to the
convention which sat at various times
a I Dublin, Belfast and Cork in 1917 and
1918.
Born in 1851, son of w. A. Redmond,
deceased member of the British par
lament from Wexford, Ireland, John
f. Redmond had sat almost continu
ousiy in the British house of commons
since 1881. There his parliament fights
for home rule earned for him the So
briquet of the stormy petrol of the
house
Educated in Clongowes Woods College,
Kildare. and Trinity College, Dublin. Red
1886 and the Irish bar the following year.
but he never practiced law. Prior to his
first election to parliament from New
Ross, Ireland, Redmond was for some
house of commons. From 1885 to 1891
he represented North Wexford but in 1891
he was elected from Waterford and had
been returned from that district since,
Stiiei diS Without opposition. In lSUU he
succeeded IN bringing about an anna lgaua-
ton OF the two leading nationalist parties
ana made his position as nationalist leader
secure.
Well Known in United States.
Redmond was well known in the United
States, which he visited in 1908 and 1910,
and Australia, where in 1888 he not only
performed a great service for his party
in directing the collection of a fund of
more than $4,000, but found a wife in
the person of Johanna Dalton, New South
Wales heresS and beauty
with the entrance of England into
the war Redmond Immediately defined
his position as Squarely with the gov
eminent In the earnest prosecution of
the war. His support of the govern
ment won the unstinted praise of Car
dinal Gibbons and the open and bitter
condemnation of the Sim Fem party,
members of which at a public meet
ing accused him of being a traitor to
the Irish cause.
He maintained his loyal position even
during the exciting days of the Sim
Fem revolution, decrying the rebellion,
but attributing it to German plot
ting in the United States. When the
rebellion had been put down he used
all the eloquence of which he was
capable in pleading for leniency toward
the great mass of the rebels and in
urging "a speedy settlement of the diff
ferences that had caused the revolt.
His eloquent address in the house of
commons on October Is, 1915, demand
ing Immediate home rule and the re-
lease of the Irish revolutionists, called
forth an answer from Premier Lloyd
George. in which the premier admitted
that mistakes had ben made in
handling the Irish situation and urging
all parties to unite in bringing about
a solution.
Jnbn f Redmond was a brother of
Mai. William H. X. Redmond. who was
killed while lighting under the British
flag in France in 1917. Maj. Redmond
was d member of parliament for East
Clare. Capt. William A. Redmond. son
of John E. member of parliament for
East Tyrone, was awarded the dis
tinguished service order medal for gal
liant conduct in the war.