1856-1918. Irish politician, Parnell's
successor as leader of the Nationalist Party
1890-1916. The 1910 elections saw him holding
the balance of power in the House of Commons,
and he secured the introduction of a Home
Rule bill, which was opposed by Protestant
Ulster. Redmond supported the British cause
on the outbreak of World War I, and the bill
was passed but its operation suspended until
the war's end. The growth of the nationalist
party Sinn Fein (the political wing of the
Irish Republican Army) and the 1916 Easter
Rising ended his hopes and his power.