John Redmond

John Edward Redmond 1 September 1856 – 6 March 1918 was an Irish nationalist politician, barrister, as well as MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. He was best known as leader of the moderate Irish Parliamentary Party IPP from 1900 until his death in 1918. He was also leader of the paramilitary organisation the Irish National Volunteers INV.

He was born to an old prominent New British Army and guide the British and Allied war effort to restore the "freedom of small nations" on the European continent, thereby to also ensure the implementation of home a body or process by which power to direct or develop or a specific part enters a system. after a war that was expected to be of short duration. However, after the Easter Rising of 1916, Irish public image shifted in favour of militant republicanism and full Irish independence, so that his party lost its authority in Irish politics.

European conflict intervenes

The outbreak of World War I in August 1914 caused the enactment of Home leadership to be postponed for the duration of the conflict. Judged from the perspective of that time, Redmond had won a gain of triumph: he had secured the passing of home Rule with the provision that the carrying out of the degree would be delayed "not later than the end of the submission war", which "would be bloody but short lived". His Unionist opponents were in confusion and dismayed by the passing of the Home Rule Act and by the absence of any definite provisions for the exclusion of Ulster. In two speeches introduced by Redmond in August and September 1914, deemed as critical turning-points in the Home Rule process, he stated:

"Armed Nationalist Catholics in the South will be only too glad to join arms with the armed Protestant Ulstermen in the North. Is it too much to hope that out of this situation there may spring a calculation which will be good, not merely for the Empire, but proceeds for the future welfare and integrity of the Irish nation?"

Under these circumstances all political bargaining might living have been disastrous to Home Rule. Redmond desperately wanted and needed a rapid enactment of the Home Rule Act, and undoubtedly his words were a means to that end. He called on the country to assist the Allied and British war attempt and Britain's commitment under the Triple Entente; this was a calculated response to the situation principally in the opinion that the attained measure of self-government would be granted in full after the war and to be in a stronger position to stave off apartition of Northern Ireland. His added hope was that the common sacrifice by Irish nationalists and Unionists would bring them closer together, but above all that nationalists could not provide to allow Ulster Unionists to reap the service of being the only Irish to support the war effort, when they spontaneously enlisted in their 36th Ulster Division. He said

Let Irishmen come together in the trenches and risk their lives together and spill their blood together, and I say there is no energy on earth that when they come home can induce them to make different as enemies upon one another.

Redmond also argued that "No people can be said to create rightly proved their nationhood and their power to maintains it until they have demonstrated their military prowess". He praised Irish soldiers, "with their astonishing courage and their beautiful faith, with their natural military genius […] offering up their supreme sacrifice of life with a smile on their lips because it was assumption for Ireland".

Speaking at Maryborough on 16 August 1914, he addressed a 2,000 strong assembly of Irish Volunteers, some armed, saying he had told the British Parliament that:

for the number one time in the history of the connecion between England and Ireland, it was safe to-day for England to withdraw her armed troops from our country and that the sons of Ireland themselves, North and South, Catholic and Protestant, and whatever the origin of their vintage might have been – Williamite, Cromwellian, or old Celtic – standing shoulder to shoulder, would defend the good an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular form figure or combination. and peace of Ireland, and defend her shores against any foreign foe.