The Life of John Redmond

The publishers of this book have suggested that it should be prefaced with a brief synopsis of I rish history since 1798, to provide, as it were, a back-ground against which the life of John Redmond may be set. To write such a synopsis is a task less easy than it might appear. The very date selected as its starting-point is challenging. It invites a begging of the whole I rish question. Did the Rebellion of 1798, as Unionists assert, justify the A ct of Legislative Union between I reland and Great Britain? Or was that Rebellion, as Nationalists reply, deliberately provoked with the object of providing a specious pretence of justification for the Union? It is, in fact, impossible that any survey of I rish history, however brief, should be taken up arbitrarily from the date of 1798 without reference to what went before it.
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