John Redmond

Standard Name: Redmond, John

Connections

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Literary responses Eavan Boland
John Redmond in the Guardian called this a forlorn, regretful collection and commented on Boland's staccato aesthetic, her habit of using as opening line a single word which is also a single sentence. The...
politics Flora Thompson
FT was a feminist and suffragist. (Lindsay further suggests that her third child's middle name, Redmond, may signal sympathy with the cause of Irish independence: he may have been named after John Redmond , a...
politics Kate O'Brien
KOB had been brought up, before the Easter Uprising, to admire Parnell , John Redmond , and Mr Asquith .
O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford, 1962.
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Now, she says, she gradually learned that she was a lifelong non-fanatic and non-patriot,...

Timeline

February 1912: Irish Women's Franchise League members held...

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February 1912

Irish Women's Franchise League members held a protest outside the Gresham Hotel, Dublin, where John Redmond and the Irish Parliamentary Party were meeting.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
50
Ward, Margaret. “’Suffrage First--Above All Else!’ An Account of the Irish Suffrage Movement”. Feminist Review, Vol.
10
, 1982, pp. 21-36.
27

April 1912: John Redmond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary...

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April 1912

John Redmond , leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party , told Irish Women's Franchise League members that he would not promote women's suffrage as it would give the clergy more power.
MacCurtain, Margaret. “Women, the Vote and Revolution”. Women in Irish Society: The Historical Dimension, edited by Margaret MacCurtain and Donncha Ó Corráin, Greenwood, 1979, pp. 46-57.
49
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
50

11 April 1912: Asquith brought forward the Liberal party's...

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11 April 1912

Asquith brought forward the Liberal party 's third Home Rule Bill for Ireland (since 1886) in return for election support from John Redmond of the Irish Party .
“Living Heritage. Parliament and Ireland. Third Home Rule Bill”. www. parliament.uk.

Texts

Redmond, John. “In the heaven of lost futures”. Guardian Unlimited.