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"...must be the definitive biography...politics was [Redmond's] life, and Melady's immersion in the huge Redmond archive enables him to show a subtler and more analytical approach to the real matters at issue..." --Roy Foster, Irish Times *** "The coming of the first world war...threw Ireland into violence and confusion, and Redmond and his party into political and historical oblivion. Meleady rescues him. Superbly detailed, clearly written and judicious and sober in its approach, this is a book that deserves to be widely read." --Terance Denman, author of 'A Lonely Grave: The Life and Death of William Redmond ***** Published to coincide with the centenary of the Government of Ireland Act 1914, this majesterial biography of John Redmond begins in 1901, shortly after his election as chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the Westminster Parliament. The book details Redmond's reconstruction of the Party following its reunification after the destructive decade-long Parnell split, and its re-fashioning as a political weapon for winning Irish Home Rule. The book follows Redmond's role in successfully passing the Conservatives' 1903 Land Purchase Act that greatly accelerated the transfer of land ownership from Irish landlords to farmers. His successes and failures in the years of the 1906-1910 Liberal Government are also fully documented. But, when the Liberals' moved in 1911 to remove the House of Lords' veto, the stage was set for the passage of the third Home Rule Bill, the paramount goal of Redmond's endeavors. The events of the following turbulent five years - the increasingly militant resistance of Ulster Unionism to Home Rule, the outbreak of World War I, and the unforeseen Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916 (as much a blow against Home Rule as against British rule) cast Redmond down from triumphant prime-minister-in-waiting to the status of Ireland's lost leader. First vilified, then forgotten, this is the story of one of the most tragic figures in 20th-century Irish political history. [Subject: Biography, Irish Studies, British Studies, Politics, History] No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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One of the merits of Dermot Meleady's account of Redmond's later career is to give Redmond's achievements their due. The second volume of a two-book study of the political leader, it begins with Redmond's assumption of a party newly reunified in 1900 after the schism caused by Parnell's involvement in a divorce case. Redmond took over the party as an inauspicious time, when the anti-Home Rule Unionist Party dominated British government, yet the new leader bided his time and pursued other issues important to the Irish people while awaiting his opportunity. When it came in 1910 with the political crisis sparked by the "People's Budget," Redmond seized it, leveraging his party's support of the ruling Liberals in return for Home Rule. Though this brought Ireland to the brink of a civil war by 1914, Meleady argues that Redmond was close to a compromise that would have brought about a peaceful result but for the outbreak of war in Europe. With the passage of a Home Rule bill finalized Redmond pledged his party's support for the war effort, a stance that alienated radical nationalists who spearheaded the Easter Rising in 1916. Though an ailing Redmond pursued compromise, by the time he died in 1918 his vision of an autonomous Ireland existing within the British empire had already been eclipsed by the demand of a radicalized electorate for full independence.
Meleady's biography is the first full-length study of Redmond in three-quarters fo a century, As such it benefits from the perspective of time and the work of generations of historians in understanding the events of Irish independence, While Meleady devotes space to addressing Redmond's family life, this is predominantly a political biography, which is understandable given his focus on political activity, Together with Meleady's first volume, [b:Redmond: The Parnellite|10239745|Redmond The Parnellite|Dermot Meleady|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348131886s/10239745.jpg|15139771], this is likely to remain the standard by which all future biographies of Redmond are judged, and a fitting tribute to a leader who nearly achieved peacefully what ultimately was accomplished with bloodshed. ( )