John Redmond: The National Leader

"...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...