Dermot Meleady

John Redmond


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Never too much on any question, but always something on every question, should be the aim.41

      III

      … a great, bold, and statesmanlike scheme… for the general compulsory sale of the land by the landlords to the tenants upon terms which will not only be just to the tenants, but which, so far as we are concerned, will be absolutely just to the Irish landlords.

      He hailed the Ulster tenants’ campaign for compulsory purchase led by the Liberal Unionist MP, T.W. Russell, who had braved taunts from fellow unionists of ‘trafficking with traitors’ to second his amendment, as:

      Reaction in Ireland was enthusiastic, while the Irish Independent’s London correspondent wrote: