Irish Question first by settling the Land Question….’ Seventy Years Young: Memories of Elizabeth, Countess of Fingall (London, 1937), p. 270.
109Blunt, My Diaries, p. 434.
110Ibid., p. 430.
111Gailey, Ireland and the Death of Kindness, pp. 176–7, 181.
112I.D.I., 10 Jan. 1902; F.J., 26, 31 Mar., 5, 10 Apr., 10 Jun. 1902; Gailey, Ireland and the Death of Kindness, pp. 177–182.
113For their names, see Redmond’s speech at Liverpool, F.J., 16 Mar. 1903. According to O’Brien’s wife Sophie, Willie Redmond was allowed ‘every comfort’ in jail, including daily visits from his wife. Memoir by Mrs Sophie O’Brien (née Raffalovitch) of John and Willie Redmond, OBP Ms. 8507 (2).
114F.J., 2 Jun. 1902.
115Ibid., 2, 3 Jun. 1902.
116Ibid., 28 Jun. 1902; NAI CBS 3/716, 27225/S.
117F.J., 7 Jul. 1902.
118Dillon to Redmond, 8 Jun. 1902, RP Ms. 15,182 (3).
119Quoted in Bull, Land, p.161.
120O’Brien to Redmond, 20 Aug. 1902, OBP Ms. 10,496 (12).
121Redmond to O’Brien, [date unknown] Aug. 1902, OBP Ms. 10,496 (6).
122O’Brien to Redmond, 25 Aug. 1902, OBP Ms. 10,496 (12).
123P.A. McHugh had written to Redmond in 1901 from Kilmainham Jail that he could not be more comfortable: ‘Like Diogenes in his tent, I want for nothing… I am reading everything from the first appearance of man on this planet to the latest lecture on musical dentistry, and am so happy that I sometimes think myself selfish.’ McHugh to Redmond, 18 May 1901, RP Ms. 15,203 (6).
124See Meleady, Redmond, Chapter 3.
125F.J., 19 Jul., 1 Sep. 1902.
126Dillon to Redmond, 12 Sep. 1902, RP Ms. 15,182 (3).
127F.J., 14 Jun., 6 Aug. 1902.
128Ibid., 3 Sep. 1902. Harrington, MP for Dublin Harbour , in 1902 in his second term as Lord Mayor of Dublin, was the former Parnellite who had played a prominent role in ending the Parnell split.
129Ibid., 5 Sep. 1902.
130William O’Brien, An Olive Branch in Ireland (London, 1910), p. 141.
131O’Brien to Redmond, 3 Sep. 1902; Redmond to O’Brien, 6 Sep. 1902; both quoted in J.V. O’Brien, William O’Brien and the Course of Irish Politics 1881–1918 (1976), p. 141; RP, Newscuttings of 1902, RP Ms. 7431.
132Redmond to Shawe-Taylor, 19 Sep. 1902.
133Quoted in J.V. O’Brien, William O’Brien, p. 141.
134F.J., 23 Sep., 11 Oct. 1902. The two were Lord Barrymore and the Duke of Abercorn.
135Ibid., 19 Oct. 1902.
136All details of the visit are in Newscuttings of the 1902 American visit, RP Ms. 7432.
137Ibid. The event was remarkable for the rhetorical dissonance between the pacifist introductory address by the veteran slavery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (‘The descendants of the patriots of Lexington and Bunker Hill, like the people of Ireland, are learning that the sword brings neither true peace nor liberty….’) and Redmond’s playing to the Irish–American gallery after viewing a drill display given by the Massachusetts 9th Regiment: ‘You come of a grand old fighting race, one of the great fighting races of the world… if only on the old soil of Ireland we had the opportunity… of teaching our people the use of arms as you do here, we could very soon and very speedily settle the Irish question (tremendous cheering).’
138F.J., 13 Dec. 1902; Devlin to Redmond, 22 Dec. 1902, RP Ms. 15,181 (1).
139F.J., 29 Nov. 1902. The vote was 1,128 in favour to 578 against.
140F.J., 25 Nov. 1902.
141Bull, Land, pp. 144–5; Bull, ‘The significance of the nationalist response to the Irish land act of 1903’, I.H.S., xxviii, no. 111 (May 1993), pp. 286–7.
142Redmond to O’Brien, 1 Dec. 1902, OBP Ms. 10,496 (6).
143F.J., 29, 30 Oct. 1902.
144F.J., 5 Nov., 11, 20, 22 Dec. 1902. Willie had been summoned after the Taghmon meeting to appear in court in Dublin on 24 September. He had wired his brother to say that he would not appear, though Redmond did not ‘think that wise’. Redmond to O’Brien, 20 Sep. 1902, OBP Ms. 10,496 (6); Denman, A lonely grave, pp. 62–3.
145F.J., 19 Jan. 1903.
146Sally Warwick-Haller, William O’Brien and