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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I wish to thank Dr Mary Green, London, great-granddaughter of John Redmond, for providing me with access to her private collection of Redmond family correspondence, photographs and newspaper cuttings, and for her kind permission to reproduce several of these photographs in this book. I am also grateful to her brother John Redmond Green for giving generously of his time in providing me with copies of photographs, letters and newspaper cartoons from the private family collection, as well as for making me aware of the account in Rudyard Kipling’s history of the Irish Guards of the action in which Redmond’s son, William Archer Redmond, won the Distinguished Service Order.

I am also indebted to Peter Leppard for drawing my attention to the Aughavanagh Visitors Book, in the possession of Dr Mary Green, and for his generosity in providing me with a copy of his transcription of the entries.

I am grateful to Charles Lysaght for drawing my attention to the speech of John Redmond at the Oxford Union on 6 June 1907 and to his own commemorative article ‘Our political debt to John Redmond is largely unpaid’ in The Irish Times of 1 September 2006, the 150th anniversary of Redmond’s birth.

It was a pleasure to meet Helen McIlwain of New York, the youngest child of Dr William T. Power, whose first wife was Esther Redmond, John Redmond’s eldest daughter. I thank her for giving me a full account of Redmond’s American descendants through Esther, and of the families and Irish antecedents of her own father and mother.

I wish to thank James and Sylvia O’Connor, of M.J. O’Connor Solicitors, formerly of George’s St., Wexford, for giving me access to the correspondence regarding the sale of the Redmond estate held in their office, and Tom Menton, formerly of O’Keeffe and Lynch, Solicitors (now O’Keeffe, Moore and Woodcock, Solicitors) for giving me access to his collection of Redmond’s correspondence relating to Freeman’s Journal affairs.

As with the preparation of the first volume of this biography, Redmond: the Parnellite (2008), I remain in debt to Mary and Jamie Ryan, Ballytrent House, Co. Wexford and to Jarlath Glynn, Wexford Library, for helping me to understand the Wexford roots of the Redmond family. My thanks are also due to the directors, librarians, keepers and staffs of the National Library of Ireland, the National Archives, the manuscript library of Trinity College Dublin, the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the Parliamentary Archives, Westminster, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and the Dublin Diocesan Archives for their patience and courtesy.

Dermot Meleady, August 2013