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10.09.2024

Launch of John Redmond and Irish Parliamentary Traditions

National University of Ireland celebrated the latest addition in our Decade of Centenaries publications, John Redmond and Irish Parliamentary Traditions, at its launch on 11 September at 6pm in NUI, 49 Merrion Square, Dublin 2

The evening began with Dr Patrick O’Leary, Registrar of NUI, who welcomed everyone to the event. Then Professor William Murphy, Head of School of History and Geography and Associate Professor in Modern Irish History at Dublin City University, officially launched the book. He discussed the themes and ways in which the book could be read, focusing on biography, commemoration, and contemporary relevance. He praised the scholarship of each individual essay and the overall editing of the book, as well as the quality of the publication by UCD Press. He concluded that the collection captured the ‘contingent, changing, contemplative Redmond’.

Edited by Dr Martin O’Donoghue and Dr Emer Purcell and published by UCD Press, John Redmond and Irish Parliamentary Traditions is a collection of essays about John Redmond and the wider political and historical context surrounding him.

The essays included in this collection are:

1. John Redmond, Irish Pasts, and Imperial Actualities: Contexts of and Constraints on his Battle for Home Rule, by Margaret O Callaghan.
2. Isaac Butt’s Legacy: The Irish Parliamentary Party, 1879–1918, by Colin W. Reid.
3. Develop its supports for students from underrepresented communities and groups in higher education.
4. The Chairman and the Chief: John Redmond and Charles Stewart Parnell, by Pauric Travers.
5. John Redmond & Edward Carson: Bloodshed, Borders, and the Union State, by Alvin Jackson.
6. The Irish Party: Recruitment and the Great War, c.1914–1915, by Michael Wheatley.
7. Women’s Suffrage, John Redmond, and the Irish Parliamentary Party, by Margaret Ward.
8. The Irish Parliamentary Party and its Successors, by Martin O'Donoghue.
9. The Parliamentary Career of Bridget Redmond TD, 1933–52: A Gendered Analysis, by Claire McGing.
10. The Contradictions of Redmondism, by Paul Bew.

This publication was supported by the NUI Grant towards Scholarly Publications and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

To attend this event, please RSVP to ucdpress@ucd.ie

 

Images from the evening

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