Dermot Meleady

John Redmond


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that was ever seen at Clongowes’. A writer of ‘Parliamentary Portraits’ for the English Western Daily Mercury remarked on the theatricality of his parliamentary performances. Other Members, Sir William Harcourt excepted, were merely ‘speakers – debaters without style, appealing neither to the heart nor the passions, but addressing themselves to our material instincts’, while Redmond was:

      Another English sketch-writer found in Redmond’s oratory:

      The Manchester Guardian’s Irish correspondent wrote in May of the return of confidence and pride in the Irish representatives, while of Redmond’s leadership he wrote:

      Dillon would have pleaded his innocence of any such intentions. In the first of several tributes he would make at intervals right to the end of Redmond’s life, always careful to distinguish between a personal friendship he did not feel and the political partnership he valued, he thanked Redmond publicly at Coalisland in September for kind words he had spoken of his services to the party, and went on:

      At the close of the session in August, by which time there had been further stormy scenes and the suspensions of Willie Redmond and Pat O’Brien from the House, the Liberal Morning Leader wrote:

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