John Redmond. Dermot Meleady
against Redmond relating to the sale of the Wexford estate. O’Shea to J.F.X. O’Brien, 11 Nov. 1903, J.F.X. O’Brien Papers Ms. 13,452.
40Ginnell to Redmond, 29 Nov. 1903, RP Ms. 15,191 (2). Redmond asked Dillon if he could do anything to restrain Ginnell, as ‘… he insults and abuses O’Donnell in the office on the slightest provocation… I have spoken strongly to O’Donnell and he has promised me not to give Ginnell any provocation, but he is also a man of strong temper and things may easily come to a crisis.’ Redmond to Dillon, 16 Dec. 1903, DP Ms. 6747/65.
41Dunraven to Redmond, 10 Nov. 1903, RP Ms. 15,187 (1).
42O’Connor to Dillon, 4 Oct., 11 Nov., 19 Dec. 1903, DP Ms. 6740/127, 128,129.
43O’Brien, Olive Branch, pp. 266, 288.
44Callanan, Healy, p. 453; F.J., 3 Jan. 1906.
45Bull, ‘The nationalist response’, p. 302; Lyons, Dillon, pp. 238–40; Maume, Long Gestation, p. 69.
46Meleady, Redmond, pp. 259, 297.
47Maume, Long Gestation, pp. 66g–8.
4823 Oct. 1901, Newscuttings of 1901, RP Ms. 7429.
4927 Jul. 1904, Newscuttings of 1904, RP Ms. 7434.
50Lyons, Parliamentary Party, pp. 242–3; Lyons, Dillon, pp. 238–41.
51Bull, ‘The nationalist response’, pp. 302–3; Bull, Land, pp. 170–5.
52Alvin Jackson, Home Rule: An Irish History, 1800–2000 (London, 2003), pp. 91–4.
53Lyons likened the Redmond–Dillon relationship to that of Spenlow and Jorkins in Dickens’ David Copperfield, Spenlow the sunny lawyer always ready to agree were it not for the reservations of his pessimistic partner. Lyons, Dillon, p. 223.
54Dillon to Redmond, 24 Jan. 1904, RP Ms. 15,182 (6); F.J., 28 Jan. 1904.
55F.J., 7 Mar. 1904.
56F.J., 20 Dec. 1903.
57Ibid., 4, 5 Jan. 1904; Hansard, 129, 199–220, 3 Feb. 1904; Dillon to Redmond, 24 Jan. 1904, RP Ms. 15,182 (6); F.J., 6, 19 Feb. 1904.
58F.J., 19 May 1904. A hint as to reasons for nationalist hostility to the bonus is offered by the Countess of Fingall in her recollections of the £12 million as ‘a jolly bonus for the broken-down landlords, and for the spendthrifts, who were relieved of their mortgaged estates and made a free gift as well... George Wyndham was taking a holiday at Monte Carlo. Wandering into the gaming rooms, he saw the Marquis of ----, hitherto an impoverished Irish peer, the centre of a group of gamers. Lord ---- had had a big estate in Ireland, but never a penny in his pocket. As George Wyndham passed by, Lord ----, pointing to the pile of notes and counters before him, called out gaily: “George! George! The Bonus!”’ Countess of Fingall, Seventy Years Young, p. 282.
59Hansard, 137, 1105–1112, 8 Jul. 1904. Significantly, T.W. Russell, late of the Land Conference, voted with the Government, stating that he was satisfied with the working of the Act in view of the rate at which tenants were applying for advances to purchase. F.J., 9 Jul. 1904.
60F.J., 11 Aug. 1904.
61Ibid., 30 Aug. 1904.
62Gailey, Ireland and the Death of Kindness, pp. 200, 202.
63F.J., 19, 21 Mar. 1904. Lord Rosebery, who had briefly been Liberal Prime Minister from the resignation of Gladstone in 1894 to his Government’s defeat in 1895, had stated that before Irish Home Rule could be conceded, it would need the approval of a majority of MPs, not simply of the UK, but of England as ‘… the predominant member of the partnership between the Three Kingdoms’. Meleady, Redmond, p. 235.
64F.J., 26 Mar., 8, 15 Apr., 13 May 1904.
65Ibid., 25 Jun. 1904. The Ulster Unionist leader was unrestrained in his praise of the Irish labourer, who was ‘… infinitely more intelligent, and quite as hard-working as the English labourer… He did not confine his thoughts simply to local matters. On the contrary, he was generally an intelligent politician. Imperial matters occupied his thoughts.’ Hansard, 136, 1149–1151, 24 Jun. 1904.
66Gailey, Ireland and the Death of Kindness, pp. 201–2.
67Hansard, 136, 1133–1140, 24 Jun. 1904. According to Sheehan, to have a single cottage built required nineteen different stages, taking up to six years, to be gone through. Sheehan was later expelled from the party and joined O’Brien as a founding member of the All-for-Ireland League in 1909, being re-elected for mid-Cork in both 1910 elections.
68Ibid., 28 Jul.,14 Nov. 1904. Sheehan pointed out that, although Labourers Acts had been in operation for over 20 years, only 17,411 cottages had been built in that time, leaving over 200,000 labourers still living in hovels.
69All quotes are from Newscuttings of the 1904 American visit, RP Ms. 7435.
70Ibid.
71F.J., 6 Aug. 1904.
72Ibid., 31 Aug. 1904.
73Gwynn, Life, p. 106. The statement is not among the newscuttings of