New Britain herald., 1918-03-06
Leader Of Nationalist Party SuC- CumbS to Operation, Which
 Weakened His Heart
PARLIAMENT KNEW HIM AS
 STORMY PETREL OF HOUSE"


 cused By Sim Feiners of Being Traitor to Cause-Assisted in For nation of Irish Convention--Made Two Visits to United States. . London. March 6.-John E. Red mond. the Irish nationalist leader, died this morning.
 Mir. Redmond, who underwent an operation in London Friday passed a fair day yeterday and apparently was maintaining the progress shown Monday.
 The Irish convention, which had been supported by MT. Redmond, yesterday adopted a message of sym pathy in which an earnest wish was expressed for his early and complete recovery.
 MT. Redmond passed away peace fully at 7:45 clock this morning. Death was due to heart failure, fol- lowing the recent operation which was for an intestinal obstruction. This was borne courageously and it relieved the patient but heart failure lnterFened tuesday nlghC.
 The physicians attending MT. Red mond issued the following statement: We regret to announce that John Redmond died at 7:45 o'clock this morning. Owing to several serious attacks of illness an operation was faced with great courage. It had be- come imperatively necessary owing to an intestinal obstruction. This .n1Sn h,r 1on ion, for some days satisfactory progress was able day Tuesday, heart failure su- pervened during the night and after a few hours, Mir. Redmond passed peacefully away"
 The news of the death of the na- tionalist leader brought messages of sorrow and regret from all sections of the community. King George was shocked deply and expressed pro- found regret. Premier Lloyd George similarly was moved. The premier will move an appropriate resolution in the house of commons.
 Champion of Homo Rule.
 For more than 25 years John E. } Redmond fought for home rule in Ireland and for a majority of that lime 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 organized in July, 1917, to devise a. system of government for the island.
 When David Lloyd George, the British Premier in that year offered two methods of settling the vexed Irish question, it was Redmond who, as spokesman for the nationalists, re- jected the proposition for a partition of Ireland and instead, accepted Lloyd Georges alternative plan for the convocation of the Irish Conven- ton in which Irishmen of nearly all parties and creeds might meet in the effort to compose their differences and draft a constitution that would afford justice to all.
 Redmond was one of the delegates to the convention which sat at various times at Dublin, Belfast and Cork in 1917 and 1918.
 Stormy PetrcI of the House.
 Born in 1851 son of w. A. Red mond, deceased, member of the Brit ish Parliament from Wexford, Ire land, John F.. Redmond had sat al
 
 House of Commons since 1881. There his parliament fights for home rule earned for him the sobriquet of the stormy petrel of the house.
 Educated in Clongowes Wood, col lege, Kildare, and Trinity college Dublin, Redmond was called to the London bar 1886 and the Irish bal the following year but he never prac ticed law. He devoted himself almos wholly to his parliamentary and poll tical duties.
 Prior to hiA first election to Parlia ment from sw Ross. Ireland, Red mond was for some time clerk Il the vote office of the house of com mons. From 1885 to 1891 he repres ented North Wexford, but in 1891 h was elected from Waterford and ha been returned from that district sine generally without opposition
 Redmond's eloquence and his gras of parliamentary procedure won hi early recognition in Parliament ant when in 1891 the Irish party was dis rupted, consequent on the Parnel scandals, he became the accredite: leader Of the Parnelities. Tn 1900 h. succeeded in bringing about an anal Gamation of the two leading nation alist parties and made his position at nationalist leader secure.
 Visited '. s. in 1908 and 1910.
 Redmond was we'll known in tn [ United States, which he visited il 1908 and 1910. and Australia. Wher in 1883 he not only performed q srea
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